Slightly off season, but I was going through some old photos and remembered I never posted about our new tree skirt! I have been wanting to make a ruffled burlap skirt for some time now... and my lovely dogs gave me a reason to go ahead and do so after they chewed a hole in our other tree skirt.
Bummer about the old skirt, but I may make some adjustments to it so it's good as new (they chewed the edges and last time I sewed it up it had a couple "scallops" to it)
Anyways, I started by cutting the largest circle I could with a base layer of white cotton fabric.
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| DIY tree skirt |
Then I cut my burlap into long strips (I believe I had 2-2.5 yards of burlap) I was SO excited about the burlap, because it had some metallic gold colored threads mixed in with it.
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| DIY tree skirt |
Then I pinned the strips of burlap onto the cotton fabric and sewed each row on to form the ruffled look. Of course the cat had to "help". (he had to leave the room when I was using pins)
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| DIY tree skirt |
I used the selvage edge of the burlap for the outer most layer of ruffles and thought it added a cute, slightly different border.
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| Burlap ruffled tree skirt |
After repeating row, after row, after row of placing burlap and stitching it on, the tree skirt was complete! I really like how it turned out (and the animals do too... they love to lay on it). If I were to make another one, I would make it larger, by stitching panels of cotton together for the base layer rather than just using the size of the fabric from the bolt.
Also, due to the nature of burlap, it does fray a lot, and with 3 animals that love to roll around under the tree, I don't think this tree skirt will last very long... I'll probably make a more durable skirt to rotate with this one in the future.
