I've never really liked my tree skirt. I bought it when I was a newly-wed and it was the cutest tree skirt in that particular store on that particular day. Plus, I like to think that my taste has improved with age.
It wasn't really bad exactly, just not really my style anymore.
So, this year, I decided to make a new one. And, best of all, it's simple, fast, cheap, and easy. Because, Christmastime is busy enough as it is, right?
I bought some inexpensive felt and laid my old tree skirt on top of it. I basically just traced the old tree skirt, but with scallops. I did the bowl trick again for the scallops, but this time I marked a spot on the bowl with tape so that all my scallops were the same size.
After doing the first layer, I shifted the tree skirt/makeshift pattern up and over to make the next smaller circle out of a different color of felt and did the same tracing thing again. (In retrospect, I should have just done the pencil-on-a-string compass trick to make them all exact circles, but I didn't care enough for that kind of exactness on this particular afternoon.)
When I got all my scalloped circles done, I cut up one side of them all, with a hole in the middle. I then laid them neatly around my tree. The whole thing took me no more than a half-hour.
Perhaps before I put it away after Christmas I will sew all the layers together, but the felt layers stick nicely to each other with just friction, so I don't really need to.
I like my new tree skirt. It's a little bit vintage and a little bit funky. I like it's bright colors. And it looks great with the eclectic ornaments on our tree. And, to think, it only took me 30 minutes!
6 comments:
cute! I still have yet to make a tree skirt for our tree...
Wow! You are a Christmas crafting genius! So glad I found your project via Centsational Girl.
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wow. I love that scalloped skirt. It's definately a nice upgrade!
megan
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That's way cute! I love cute things that are not too hard.
very nice. I like the colours you have chosen too.
Super cute! I'll have to make this for next year. I would love for you to link this up at Do Something Crafty Friday: http://vanessascraftynest.blogspot.com/search/label/Do%20Something%20Crafty%20Friday
The linky will be up all week :)
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