Can someone please help me find a past Martha Stewart Living magazine craft project?
It’s a project from a Dec. or winter issue from several years ago — (a pre-prison days Martha issue). I had saved this issue for years and now I can’t find it!! It is a wooden Christmas tree that I believe to be made from two wooden tree shapes then put together in a criss-cross fashion. Shelves are built in between the “branches”. I think it must have been at least 3-4 ft. tall. PLEASE HELP!! I wanna make this tree!
I’ve looked all over the internet and on Martha’s site for past issues- can’t find it anywhere!! Thanks for looking!
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I’m sorry, I looked all over the internet for it but I didn’t have any luck. From your description I can picture it in my head and it sounds cute and pretty simple. Good luck & sorry I couldn’t be of more help! Happy Thanksgiving & Merry Christmas!
Try writing to Martha and her magazine company, and ask if they might have it in the archives. I went to the website, and there is a bolg, and a contact us section. Try those and see if someone can help you. don’t know if there is a charge for recieving archived materials, but it might be worth it to you to spend a few bucks to get the pattern.
I also went looking, no luck.
I did find out that the shelf tree is an old German custom, people made them that had no money, and the shelves were for display. Found the definition, just no pattern.
I didn’t see anything quickly either, but it sounds like it’s just made by putting two flat wood xmas tree shaped cutouts together to create a “3D” tree by making a slot in each one (from the top in one cutout, from the bottom of the other cutout–with each slot being just a bit longer than half of the tree’s height)… one cutout is then placed over the other one so the slots intersect in an X orientation… something like these which are much smaller:
http://www.google.com/images?q=Christmas+tree+slots
http://www.google.com/images?q=how+to+Christmas+tree+slots+wood
Once you had that shape, you could measure and add wood (or other) triangular shelves in each of the 4 open areas (or I guess the shelves could be regular board strips but they’d have to be angled on each end to butt up against the open sides of the tree, or have some other way of connecting and being supported by the tree.
HTH,
Diane B.