The Not-So-Humble Tree Skirt

It's finally done!!!

I'm probably biased, but I'm pretty sure I just made the world's cutest Christmas tree skirt. Like for reals. Here's proof: 

I can't remember the last time I was so pleased with a project!

Kamber told me about Small Business Saturday and we went to Pine Needles and got this beautiful fabric, and the best part is, I only spent like $4 in the end.

It's good quality material and I like knowing that the fabric feels wonderful as well! (sort of like how I always was content with fake pearls until I got the real thing...I blame my in-laws for that one!)

Anyway, I saw a tutorial online on how to make a tree skirt and I started doing exactly what she did until I realized that my sewing teacher would haunt me if she ever saw what I was doing. So I went to a lot of extra effort to make sure there were no unfinished edges, and ended up making a much better product. Now I can sleep at night. :) Seriously though, if I had done it the sewing-teacher-will-haunt-you way, this would come apart the first time it was washed!

Thanks to Riley for helping me gather the insane amounts of fabric that went into these ruffles. I started thinking about how fancy I would feel if I had a skirt like this to wear, even if would look silly!

I sewed each ruffle on with a double needle, and because I somehow lost the box with ALL my sewing feet (the one on my machine is actually my mother's) and sewing machine accessories, I did not have an extra spool holder. Nothing my Gingher's and a trusty old paper clip can't fix!

Here's the bias tape I made of the outermost fabric and used to finish off the innermost circle and ties.

Voila! Finito! This was not necessarily hard, but it was quite time-consuming. Mark kept telling me at my most exasperated moments that I could put it away and finish it next year. I love him! He's so supportive.

Here's our humble tree, with our not-so-humble tree skirt. Gotta give it room to grow!

{I'm not sure I want to put the presents on top of it!}

Merry Christmas!!!!!!