Primitives

Make this Primitive Christmas Tree with this easy tutorial. With handmade Christmas ornaments, you'll love this old-fashioned tree.

Back in 2016...seems like yesterday...i posted a free tutorial 'how to Make Primitive Sunflowers' on Craftsy. Remember Craftsy? If you remember...Craftsy was taken over by the new and 'improved' (or so they inferred) Bluprint owned by NBC Universal. Many of the Craftsy community was not impressed and if you had a Craftsy Pattern Store it was a wonderful place to share free downloads and sell patterns, but unfortunately not the case with Bluprint. Once Bluprint took over, i received notice…

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Primitive patterns nowadays were not so popular as it is back then. However, the art of primitive patterns comes from the style of naive or folk art.

This easy-to-make fabric Christmas tree with homespun fabric is the perfect rustic Christmas decor for the mantel, shelf or tablescapes.

I'd love to have a "buttery". I just like the word. When I think of a buttery I think of old shelves in old paint filled with firkins, bowls, bottles, pantry boxes, and dried gourds, herbs, flowers. And butter - crocks with butter in them and butter prints pressed onto them. It's a place where I can arrange all my country kitchen antiques without the practical problems of actually needing the space for cans of tomato sauce. I don' t have space for that. I have a nice pantr

This is also going to be one of my next patterns, there will be this little ginger and a snowman in the same pattern. Stay tuned!