3 Simple No-Sew Tree Skirts

I’ve a Christmas confession to make—I’ve by no means had a tree skirt earlier than. I don’t imply I’ve by no means made a tree skirt, I imply I’ve by no means had one typically.

This yr, I assumed I’d leap on the tree skirt practice and begin with three straightforward no-sew choices for my first yr.

The excellent news is that these tree skirts actually are really easy to make, however the dangerous information is that (except you’ve three bushes) you need to choose only one!

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Provides:
-fabric (felt or faux fur in our case)
–hot glue gun
-matching ribbon
–fabric scissors
-ruler and marker

OK, listed below are the general instructions to your tree skirt. I’ll provide the variation particulars for every particular one beneath.

Step 1: First, we’re going to lower a giant circle out of our cloth. A straightforward strategy to get a fair circle is to make a giant sq. that’s not less than the width of your tree skirt (I’ve a small tree so I wanted not less than 40″ broad).

Fold the sq. in half to make an extended rectangle (20″ x 40″), fold that rectangle in half on the center vertical line (20″ x 20″).

When utilizing skinny fabric-like felt, you possibly can even make one other fold to make your sq. a triangle like I did within the first image (the fur is slightly too thick to do this many folds).

Regardless of what number of instances you fold your cloth, simply use a ruler and measure out half your circle diameter (so 20″ for me) from the middle of your folded sq. all the way in which throughout your folded cloth.

Lower by means of the layers throughout the marked line with cloth scissors, and you need to have a circle whenever you unfold it.

Step 2: To make the small center circle to your tree trunk, fold your cloth circle in half and place a spherical can or jar midway throughout the center level of your fold. Hint the half circle and lower with cloth scissors.

Step 3: Depart the material folded and lower the fold open on simply one of many sides. This opening will will let you place your skirt over the bottom of the tree.

Step 4: To make the small ties that can preserve your skirt closed as soon as it’s on the tree base, lower 6 items of 6″ ribbon. Use a scorching glue gun to connect them to the underside of your skirt in units of two.

These are the fundamental directions. Let’s get to the small print!

Easy methods to Make a Pom Pom Tree Skirt:

For the pom pom skirt, all you need to do is observe the fundamental instructions after which scorching glue pom pom trim across the fringe of the skirt. I really like jumbo pom poms, so I purchased the most important trim I might discover on the native craft retailer. 

Easy methods to Make a Scalloped Tree Skirt:

To make a scalloped edge skirt, hint the underside half of a spherical merchandise (like a ribbon spool) all the way in which across the fringe of the skirt as soon as you chop your giant circle.

I assumed it might be enjoyable so as to add a white tip to the sting of the scallops to make it seem like little snow banks. So, as soon as all of the gray scallops had been lower, I traced the sting onto some white felt as effectively.

After reducing the white scallops, I used fabric glue (though the new glue gun would work, too) to safe the snow suggestions onto the gray.

Easy methods to Make a Fake Fur Tree Skirt:

The fur skirt is the best one as a result of you’ve the least quantity of issues so as to add to it, however you need to be slightly slower when reducing out your circles to maintain the size of the fur intact across the edges.

I used the folding technique (in step 1) to mark my reducing path, however I didn’t lower all of the layers directly like I did with the felt.

I stored flipping and refolding the fur so I might mark all the way in which across the circle, after which solely lower one layer deep making very small cuts as I went.

Tip: Attempt to preserve the underside blade of your scissors scraping as near the backing of the fur as potential and that will even preserve you from chopping the ends of your fur brief.

After you make all of your cuts into the fur, take it outdoors and provides it a great shake so it received’t shed any extra fur bits later.

It was sort of bananas how rapidly I might make all three skirts. So these actually are quick and straightforward choices to your tree!

Elsie’s tree agreed to mannequin the skirts for our footage (we love a white Christmas tree over right here with some pretty garland).

We’ve additionally received a ton of Christmas content material in our archives, so flick through there for extra vacation tasks and recipes! xo, Laura