Looking for Christmas quilling patterns for your Christmas cards or perhaps to quill Christmas decorations? Why not make your own? There really is only one simple secret to creating your own quilling patterns - draw pictures using the shapes you know how to quill.

A very simple pattern that I created using only coils, squares, triangles and a single diamond was a christmas tree with presents around it. Three large triangles formed the Christmas tree itself with three brown squares as the trunk of the Christmas tree. I used the single yellow diamond to decorate the top of the Christmas tree with a few coils as baubles on the Christmas tree. A couple of colored squares I placed around the based as presents. If you know quilling this is a really simple pattern but at the same time really effective for this time of year.

Try putting shapes together in different ways to form new shapes to make more complex patterns. For

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