Tuesday 4 December 2012

Pinned It & Did It - Christmas Tree Skirt

My Christmas tree skirt...

Christmas tree skirt that I pinned...
Pinned via pinmarklet from curbly.com


I pinned a few Christmas tree skirts on my Christmas board because I knew I wanted to make one this year. The last few years, I've wrapped random pieces of fabric or table cloths around the skirt, but I really wanted a Christmas skirt that was special, festive, and one that we can use each Christmas to come. 



So, I followed this tutorial by CraftMel on Curbly. It was very clear and easy to follow. The most difficult part in making this Christmas tree skirt was choosing a snowflake design. I took about three days looking at differenty types of snowflake designs, and then cut out about ten (from our recycle paper) before finally settling on this one...


Cutting it out of the large piece of felt wasn't too bad and would have been much easier if I hadn't had four three-to-five-year-olds playing in the room, me constantly saying, "Remember, don't step in the hot lava!!" lava=felt 


I made one small, time consuming change to the method of making the Christmas tree skirt. Since I really want to use it year after year, and also because I have children running & playing around the tree from time to time, I decided to sew the white snowflake to the red circle. Lots of pins and three days of sewing for short periods of time and I finally finished!



We had our tree for two days without a skirt. It's much warmer now...and prettier.


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4 comments:

  1. Beautiful! I love your tree skirt!

    Katie
    www.funhomethings.com

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  2. Jessica,
    What a beautiful tree skirt you designed and sewed! I love it...it is truly a keepsake and is so festive!
    Mom

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  3. Jessica,
    How wide is the skirt?
    Thanks,
    Mom

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  4. Nicely done & so simple! Visiting from DearCreatives.com & Inspiration Spotlight

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