I’ve been married to my husband for 10 years, and we have never had a tree skirt. Every year when we get the Christmas decorations out, I think, “I’m going to make a tree skirt this year” and it never happened, until this year! These ruffled tree skirts seem to be all the rage over on pinterest. I have three different ones pinned, but I didn’t read the instructions on any of them, I just winged it. 🙂 I had heard that you could do it with a glue gun though, so that is what I did. I think that I’d sew it if I had it to do over again. I just got into my stash of fabric and cut 4″ strips of the colors, and the burlap is 5″. One thing I did learn…it takes A LOT more fabric than I thought it would. I had an old fitted sheet {that wasn’t so fitted anymore} that I cut up for the base of the skirt. It took lots of glue sticks, but it did seem to come together rather quickly.
When I started cutting fabric, I thought I’d do the burlap, maroon, then green, and then I’d repeat. I used ALL my burlap on the first row. By the time I got done with the first row, I figured this project was going to be hopeless and I’d have to run out and buy more fabric the next day, or scratch the whole idea. I did the second row, and then the third. Obviously, with each row you use less fabric, so I did end up having enough to go as far as I did, minus the burlap. And I like it. If all goes as planned it will be covered up by gifts soon anyway. {Who and I kidding, I’m the mom that’s up 1/2 the night on Christmas Eve, wrapping presents!}
It makes me happy to have a cute girly skirt under the tree, with my house full of boys. As you can see, I don’t have a fancy tree, with a theme or anything, it’s a mish mash of all the ornaments we’ve collected over the last 10 years, and all the ones that my boys have made along the way as well. But I do enjoy getting them all out and remembering the memories that come from making them with my boys.
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