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Christmas Tree Skirt Project

Add a handmade touch to your Christmas tree! Make this skirt with fun Christmas prints or use it as a base for quilting, embroidery, painting with stencils, appliques, ruffles, and so much more! This quick tree skirt is simply placed around tree base and edges are snapped together to secure. Use 2 different fabrics and it can be reversed!

Notes: 

  • Finished size: approximately 43” diameter

  • ½” seam allowances

Supplies:

Christmas tree skirt project

Instructional Steps:

1: Fold fabric in half and then in half again to form a square. It will be 4 layers thick.

 

Christmas tree skirt project

 

2: Use a superboard, pushpins, yardstick, and marking pen to draw a circle on the fabric. Insert a pushpin through the point of the folded corner of fabric and into Superboard to secure. Do not completely unfold Superboard and pin through 2 layers of the Superboard to prevent any damage to work surface. Use additional pushpins to keep fabric from shifting.

 

Christmas tree skirt project

3: Slip hole in yardstick onto the pushpin. This hole is at the 1” mark so final measurement of circle will be 1” shorter than the marking on yardstick.

 

Christmas tree skirt project

4: Position the marking pen point at 23”. Draw an arc from one edge to the other. Make a second mark at 3” mark. This will be the opening around the base of the tree.

 

5: Cut along marks to cut out circle and tree opening.

Christmas tree skirt project

6: Along one of the fabric folds, cut a full slit in circle.

7: Repeat steps 1 - 6 to cut lining (or second Main fabric) and batting.

 

Christmas tree skirt project

8: Optional Piping: On right side of main fabric, stitch piping to outside edge of circle with ½” seam.

 

Christmas tree skirt project

9: Place lining, right sides together, on main fabric circle. Layer batting over wrong side of lining fabric. Pin through all layers to reduce shifting.

 

Christmas tree skirt project

10: With ½” seam, stitch layers together along all edges. Keep a 4” to 6” opening on one side of circle slit.

 

Christmas tree skirt project11: Trim seams and turn right side out through slit opening. Press seams flat.

 

Christmas tree skirt project

12: Hand stitch opening closed. Topstitch at ¼” along all edges of tree skirt and a second row of stitches at ¾” along both slit edges. This will create an area for the snaps.

 

Christmas tree skirt project

13: Apply 4 snaps along slit edges (between stitching lines), overlapping edges about 1”. Use the centering side of yardstick to determine even spacing between snaps.

 

Christmas tree skirt project

Quick + Easy sums up this project! You can embellish this simple tree skirt with quilting, appliques, adhesives, or anything else that comes to mind. Happy Holidays!

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