Christmas Tree Skirt

My son, Ellis, and his girlfriend, Alison, bought their first Christmas tree this year. They had very few ornaments and didn't have a topper, so it was time to go shopping! Yippee!

Alison and I went to JoAnn Fabric, because they had a great sale with 70% off ornaments. After looking at all the single and packaged ornaments, Alison decided on blue, silver and white ornaments and a big snowflake for the topper. We went to look at tree skirts and came to the conclusion that they were too expensive, even on sale, and many were more than the price of the tree.

Beautiful Snowflake Tree topper 

White, blue and silver ornaments with a blue ribbon running through their tree.

So, I told Alison that I would make her a skirt going with the blue, white and snowflake theme. I have a skinny tree I use in my upstairs for all of the homemade ornaments from my kids, grandkids, and family. It came with a simple red felt skirt that I used for a pattern for the new white snowflake skirt.

I had some white fleece that I used for the new skirt. I put the fleece on my island in the kitchen, pinned the red felt skirt on top of the fleece, and cut around the outside of the skirt, cut a circle in the middle and then a slit from the bottom up to the center circle.

My skinny tree skirt pattern on the white fleece ready to cut.

I had some white ribbon with blue snowflakes that I decided to use for the ties on the slit.  I pinned a piece of ribbon on each side of the top, middle and bottom of the slit. I sewed it in two spots across the ribbon to keep it from raveling, or ripping off.

Skirt ties shown from the front and back.

I purchased a fabric glue pen from JoAnn Fabric and ordered two sizes of felt cutout snowflakes in white, dark and light blue from Amazon. I placed the snowflakes all over the skirt in a scattered pattern mixing the colors and sizes. When it looked just the way I wanted it, I glued each snowflake in place with the fabric glue. It took a few hours to dry completely.

Glue pen and a felt snowflake.

All the snowflakes are glued in place and drying.

Ellis and Alison came over to join us on a trip to see the "12 Days of Christmas" at the Arboretum in Dallas and they took the new skirt home with a promise to send me a picture of their tree with the new skirt.  It looks great!!

The picture came as promised. Beautiful!!!