Beautiful Christmas Tree Skirts and Tutorials

Everyone needs a tree skirt. Some skirts are not so hard to make. I made skirts years ago for our tree and for our kid's trees. Mine were just fabric, with fabric glue I added sparkles and Christmas cloth decals. They turned out pretty. They took some sewing but they were fun to make. I always cut my circle for my tree skirts with my husband’s help. We folded our fabric in half and cut out a circle with a string attached to a pen or pencil.

When I made mine I also added a lace edge. You can add any kind of trim you would like or make your own trim for the edge and clue it on.

Use any kind of little add on items you want like buttons, charms, felt snowflakes, pom-poms, beads or the family name. Many items can be found in craft and sewing stores or make your own. Fabric paint can also be used to add designs on your skirt.

Pretty ruffled skirt. This is a no sew skirt that looks great and is easy to make.

Bridesmaid or old wedding dresses also make pretty skirts for your trees. No one ever seems to wear a bridemaid dress again, so why not put it to use for a skirt. Any skirt you might have and don't want especially if their lace cut up and turn into a tree skirt.

Also old table cloths, curtains, quilts and bedspreads can be used. If it's a round tablecloth, your almost there. Just cut a slit up the tablecloth until you get to the middle then cut a circle in the center. You can finish it off by sewing a ribbon around the hole and down the slit, add hooks for closure.

This skirt is made out of ties and sales for $1200. Why would anyone pay that when you can make it yourself. The pattern on this picture is different from the tutorial I found on making tie skirt but it's pretty close and I don't think would be hard to figure out how they made this tie skirt.

You can also crochet or knit a tree skirt. My mother-in-law crocheted hers years ago. This one is crocheted with granny squares.

The fleece skirt is kind of neat because to make a skirt from fleece it would take very little sewing or no sewing.

Here is a pretty fleece skirt with the tutorial.

We make blankets out of fleece every year, no sewing, easy, easy just tie the two fabrics together. Just like on this skirt. Our granddaughter ask for another blanket this year.

Skirts can also be put together with no sewing just by using iron on fabric tape,use fabric glue.or hot glue.

You can make skirts from all kinds of fabric. Velvet, brocade, lace, cotton, muslin, oil cloth, felt, anything and everything. Make the skirt look modern or country. Burlap sacks make nice skirts. Decorations added to a skirt makes it look so festive.

You can also add family pictures to a skirt by printing on transfer paper and ironing onto your skirt or printing right on fabric and making the skirt from that.

Patterns for skirts can also be bought at the fabric store or anyplace that carries patterns like Simplicity or McCall's.

In our house there was always more then one tree. Our kids like to have small little trees in their rooms. So we needed more then one skirt.

Quilted skirts are always popular and there are many patterns on the internet for quilted skirts. The link will give you the pattern for this skirt. I added two links for quilted skirts one for the sprial and the other for a square block skirt. Remember skirts can be made out of old clothing fabric made to look rustic with old denim shirts or jeans.

On your tree skirts you can use any kind of closures you would like.

Zippers

Buttons

Ribbons

Velcro

snaps

hooks

If you don't want to make your skirts go to Christmas Craft shows they are usually loaded with skirts. You could talk a friend into making you one.

I finally dug out my own skirt. This is one of the skirts I made and this took sewing and I used quilted fabric so it didn't have to have a lining for the back. I added the lace and that's about all I did to it, cut and seamed together.

Below is the skirt under our tree. I made it big enough so lots of things could sit on top of it. Most of the time that's where the cats slept.

Beautiful Christmas Tree Skirts and Tutorials