Christmas Tree Skirt

I have been wanting a TREE SKIRT for the past...

oh 7 years or so, but they are SO EXPENSIVE and most aren't my style.

A few years ago I decided that it wouldn't be too hard to make one, 

but when Christmas rolls around & you pull out your tree & remember 

you still don't have one, you don't have the time & so you throw a red sheet around 

the base of your tree...year after year.

I have been wanting to do a "Peppermint Skirt" because my tree is all red & white, sort of like this one...

But have yet to find the time to sew one up.

Well the other day I pinned this gorgeous tree skirt to my pinterest account.
LOOK AT IT! It is beautiful & ruffly and I love it!!

The best part? NO SEW! She hot glued the whole thing & I decided that I could manage that!

The Crafted Sparrow gives an excellent tutorial, so hop on over there to check it out!

I did mine basically the same, except that I ended up doing my strips more than twice as wide(pure laziness on my part) & I didn't pleat my fabric as often(also pure laziness) & I ended up using pinking shears to cut the edges to avoid fraying.

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My mom was giving away this red tablecloth years ago & I snatched it up, knowing that it was the perfect size to make a tree skirt. And here I am YEARS LATER, actually putting it to use!

Even though I decided against the "Peppermint Swirl", I still wanted to use REDS & WHITES to match my tree & these are the fabrics I found...

My favorite fabric to cut was the STRIPES! So easy, I could just cut right on the lines!:)

I bought 1 1/2 yards of each fabric & then cut 5 inch strips & used about 4 strips of each color...I'm guessing I used about 3/4 yard of each fabric in the end. You would use more if you did the entire skirt and pleated more often like the Crafted Sparrow!

So...my "PLAN" was to do several layers of each fabric, like the Crafted sparrow, but after doing one layer of each, I decided I wanted to leave the rest of it the RED fabric peeking out(ok, if I'm going to be honest, it was pure laziness, AGAIN) If you used an ugly scrap piece of fabric, you would probably want to cover the entire thing, but since my base fabric was red, it worked for me!

I LOVE my tree with it's new RUFFLY SKIRT & can't believe it took me 7 to sit down and whip it up!

If you don't have a skirt around your tree, you now know how EASY it can be, so get to it!