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This year I decided very last minute recently that I would make a new tree skirt. So I stood in my kitchen with my glue gun, old tree skirt, and fabric in hand and got to work. 4 hours later and a bazillion glue sticks used I have a magnificent tree skirt!!! I love how it turned out. And yes, you can make it too! It’s no sew so it’s super simple. Some of the fabric I had on hand (the white flannel, and red & white polka dot) the turquoise felt, and red & white floral I bought at Hobby Lobby.
Here’s What You Will Need:
* Old tree skirt
(or trace one onto a piece of large felt and cut your own new one out)
* Fabric cut into 2 1/2″ wide strips – cut the length to be the longest you can get out of your cut of fabric
(I used about close to 3 yards if not just a bit more, so prepare to have a bit extra to be safe)
* Glue gun
* LOT’S of glue sticks!!!
* Ribbon to coordinate if you want new ties on your skirt
Okay, ready? Set! Go!
Start with your ugly tree skirt!
Cut your fabric, choose as many prints and solids as you like or keep it all one color or just two.
Start on the very bottom at the edge of the opening that ties together. You’ll want to overlap the edge of the bottom just a bit so you won’t be able to see the old skirt. With your glue gun just start gluing small sections as you go creating ruffles and gluing them down. It really couldn’t be any easier! And yes I left my fabric all unfinished, but you could sew finished edges if you really wanted to.
I’m not too worried about the fraying. I kind of like it.
Now just continue to keep layering your fabric while creating ruffles and gluing them down. When you get to the end just trim excess fabric off. If your fabric strips aren’t long enough to go the whole distance of the skirt just match your next strip of fabric up to where your previous strip ended and glue down. I had to do this a lot on my red & white floral. You can’t even tell. Note: If you do choose to used felt to create a layer of ruffles (which I won’t again) glue does create spots through the felt, other fabrics would have been better choices.
Cut off existing ties if they don’t match the new colors and just hot glue some new pieces of ribbon in place of the existing ones. I cut mine to be the same length as the previous ties.
When your tree skirt is complete….it should look something like this gorgeous creation!
This one is so cheerful it makes me giddy! I’m so pleased with it, and glad I chose to try it. I will definitely make another one next year to match that color scheme.
I REALLY want to do this before Christmas 🙂
This looks awesome!
Thanks. 🙂 If you do one, send a photo!
That is adorable! I love the colors you are using.
Bah! This is TOOOO cute! I love the NO SEW especially. Pinning this, will be copying you I’m sure 😉 Kelli
This is great! Our tree skirt is in need of a major makeover. Thanks for the inspiration! 🙂
THis is great! I love the cheery colors too! I found you at Lolly Jane!
Carlee
http://www.ladybirdln.com
visiting from lolly jane 🙂 I love your new tree skirt! Very beautiful.. and fun too! Makes me want to try one.. hmm.
I would love for you to share this at my Friday link party going on now.. oh and dont forget to enter my TinyPrints giveaway too!
I love those color combos! Way cute.
This is so adorable! LOVE the color combos! I’m your newest follower. Can’t wait to see what else you come up with! 🙂 -McCall
Excited to see some new readers from Lolly Jane! So awesome. Glad you all like the tree skirt. 🙂
I love this fun tree skirt! It looks awesome!
This is so gorgeous! I have been wanting to make a ruffled tree skirt, too, but haven’t decided what colors I want to use. This looks fabulous!!! 🙂 Thanks so much for sharing at Homemaker in Heels! I just featured this on my FB, so feel free to grab a “featured” button! Have a wonderful weekend! 🙂
oh its pretty!
I’d buy this from you! 😀 You choose awesome colors!
I cannot believe how easy this looks! It is definitely something that I might actually be able to accomplish along with all my other stuff. Perfect for our red, aqua and white Christmas {great colors}.
So pretty! Would LOVE it if you would link this up at my turquoise lovin’ party going on right now!! (and red during the holidays!) http://www.sweetlittlegals.com/2011/11/turquoise-lovin-15.html
This is so spunky and pretty! I love it!
Love this idea! Good fabric choices!
Your newest follower,
Cecile
I’ve been wondering how people made these without sewing.:) I LOVE that color combination. The skirt itself is a huge improvement from the original.;)
just found you the other day and I’m in love! You kicked me into gear and I copied your tree skirt lastnight! Thanks for inspiring me! I hope you don’t mind, I blogged about it today on my blog!
Tis the season! Great job, I’ll be doing this tomorrow!!! Thank you love it!
I have been wanting and wanting and wanting to do this and I think your color combo has me ridiculously inspired to actually DO IT! Gorgeous my friend…as is your LOVELY blog!
Yup. I NEED to do this!
This is to die for!! I am totally making one for my tree and love the color so much I am ditching my green ornaments so I can do red white and aqua!
I need to make a tree skirt (obviously last minute!) and this is just the tutorial I was looking for! Thank you!
OKAY one of the most inspiring Holiday projects thus far! I *want* to do this… now if I could just find time..
I share this on my blog I hope you don’t mind http://little-miss-aok-bowtique.blogspot.com/
This is amazing! I would love to have you link up to my blog!
http://cookingwithkaryn.blogspot.com/2011/11/what-makes-you-say-mmmmm-4-and-bread.html
OH. MY. WORD.!!! I love this!!!! I’m so inspired & totally need to make one!
would LOVE for you to link up to my SPEND LESS | GIVE MORE holiday link up @ http://www.SUMMITstreetJOY.com
– lauren @ssj
Wow! Seriously I’m overwhelmed at how much of a hit this tree skirt has been! I’m so grateful for all the love over it! Thank you everyone!
PS: Featuring you at this weekend’s party! Yay!
Can’t wait to see what else you’ll have 😉
xoxo
You’ve been featured over at House of Hepworths!
Congrats!
Hey Rebecca! Just wanted to let you know I am featuring this tonight! Have a wonderful weekend! 🙂
So cute ! Love the colors you used !
I picked up my fabric tonight! Turned out to be a bit more expensive than I thought.. maybe I just picked expensive cotton? I dunno hahah.. BUT I can’t wait to put it under the tree!
So, I did it! I found the time to make one and it turned out awesome. Used a color scheme similar to yours, but threw in as many different textures as I could find. Turned out great! Thanks for sharing!
http://thebrilliantcraftytype.blogspot.com/2011/12/ruffled-tree-skirt-holiday-cheer-jerker.html
Your tree skirt is gorgeous! I love the colors! I found you through Homemaker in Heels. Thank you for sharing!
Well, I finally got my own ruffle tree skirt made, and I blogged all about it! I mentioned your tutorial in the post, so I would love it if you stopped by. Thanks again for the great inspiration!
http://www.nestcandy.com/2011/12/no-sew-ruffle-tree-skirt.html
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this tree skirt! I am also doing a 25 days of christmas series on my blog, but since I don’t have time for 25 projects of my own, I’m asking other bloggers to guest post. I was wondering if you’d like to share your tree shirt tutorial with my readers? My blog is embracingmessy.blogspot.com if you’d like to check it out. You can email me at embracingmessy@gmail.com for more info.
Thanks!
Kelsey
embracingmessy.blogspot.com
I am featuring this on my blog this evening! Thanks again for linking up! : )
Thanks for this awesome idea! I copied it, almost exactly – and LOVE it! Here’s the link – made sure to give you credit on my blog and send people your way for instructions. Thanks so much 🙂 http://www.everything.beautiful.org
I love this! Awesome job, and the colors and mix of fabrics are fabulous!
Darling! I love that you don’t have to sew it!
This is fabulous! Im linked up:
http://fanciestrands.blogspot.com/2011/12/crafted-sparrow-25-days-of-christmas.html
Love the color scheme! The fabrics are so cute! I featured this on my pinterest finds post. http://www.lovebugliving.com/2011/12/pinterest-christmas-inspiration.html
Silly question, but did you pre wash your fabric?
I think it would be lighter weight and washable (on delicate) if you used an iron and iron on tape..like for hems etc. There is a heavy duty tape that is fantastic.
Also, instead of having to cut your fabrics, you could purchase a color blend of fabrics pre-cut to 2.5″ wide in a fabric *Jelly Roll* from a quilt shop or on ebay. (cheaper on ebay) Then, just pull and apply a strip or separate the sections to use the colors blends you like.
Just a suggestion for making it easier, less glue mess and washable. LOVE RUFFLES so much, I got a ruffle foot recently for my sewing machine and now ruffle the world with it and the old fashioned way!!
Q.
LOVE THIS! It’s so pretty! And your tutorial is super easy to follow, thank so much for sharing this!
wow this is spectacular. Love the colour choice and love how easy it is to make. I don’t have an ugly tree skirt but I will find some felt and try and make one. Thanks for sharing your creation. We love you for doing this.
Absolutely stunning! Did you have 3 yds of fabric total? or 3 yds of fabric per color/type?
I love tree skirts, tutorials and polka dots! I’m posting this on my FB!
hello. thanks for the fun idea!
what size was your original tree skirt you used? And with that, how many yards of fabric total did you use for this (including patterned as well as the felt)? If you remember. I wasn’t sure if the 3 yds was for the entire thing?
Thank you!
mistielscott@yahoo.com
How stinkin’ cute is this?? I am totally doing this! How wide was your skirt in the pic?
elisabethkowen@gmail.com
Elisabeth – Thank you. I honestly don’t know how wide it is, but it was just a typical tree skirt that I found at Walmart several years ago. If it helps my tree is only 38″ in diameter on the bottom, so I’d say the skirt is about 40″.
I love this, going to try this weekend, but could you tell me did you use a total of 3 yards of fabric or 3 yards per design. Thanks so much
It took 3 yards total.
Wow! this is so interesting and so simple.
Absolutely LOVE this! Couldn’t put up the big tree this yr. due to 2 frisky kittens, but will be next yr. Have an ugly ol’ tree skirt and a bunch of Christmas themed material I could use for this project! I don’t have a sewing machine, but have plenty of glue guns, so the no sew works out great for me. So glad I found this!! :o)
Hi! I’m wondering how much fabric I should get of each pattern if I’m doing 4 different ones like you did ? Thanks!!
Hi Summer, thanks for asking. I know I used close to 3 yards of fabric total for the tree skirt, but I honestly don’t remember the yardage amount of each different pattern of fabric. I didn’t document it and it’s been several years since the project. I’m sorry I can’t be more help.
Thank you for the tutorial. I couldn’t find a skirt that I liked for my tree so I used yours as my inspiration!
You’re so welcome, I am so glad you like it. 🙂