Today Tes will show you her new Christmas tree skirt pattern. You don’t need any special tools or templates for this easy method. Follow along with the pattern: 636 Easy Holiday Tree Pattern
Video transcript:
hi I’m Tes Scholtz with Tulip Square and today I’m going to show you how to make this big beautiful tree skirt I’m going to show you this method that doesn’t require any angled ruler or any kind of special template or anything super easy to do and all the instructions and measurements and everything will be in a pattern at the end of the video so make sure you watch the whole thing and let’s head over to the sewing machine and I’ll show you how easy it is
so you have all your strips cut
now all you have to do is sew them together in order it’s this is my white right here so red white green white red white green white etc.
as always make sure you do nice quarter inch seams on everything
okay
now we have all of our panels
like this they should all be the same length and just to make sure edges are even
we’re going to trim the edges just slightly just like it says in the pattern
when you press these you just want to press them all in the same direction
now that you have them trimmed all to exactly the same size
you’re going to cut them in half
you’re going to cut them diagonally from corner to corner
now here’s the important part you’re going to cut half of them this way you’re going to cut the other half of them this way okay
now once you cut it in half on the diagonal then you’ve got
these pieces so if you spin one around you see
you have two pieces that are exactly the same
and then the ones that you cut in the other direction
you’ll have two pieces exactly the same that go this way so next what you’re going to do you’re going to pair these up
one of these pieces
one of these pieces
you’re going to line those up
then you’re going to sew those together
you’ll sew that right along that longest longest edge
before you sew the seam here
let’s make sure that you selected the right pieces okay so see right now all of your seams are pressed and they’re all going down so they’re not nesting properly
but just pick a different one
because you have enough that will automatically nest correctly you just have to make sure you pick the right pairs see that now they’re nesting properly
You want to make sure you choose the right pairs because there’s exactly enough
for all of them to nest correctly then you’re going to sew this
longest side nice quarter inch seam
sew all your pairs together like that
now you’ve got this sewn together
you can press those in either directions it’s fine or you can even wait till it’s done and press everything
so now you’re going to take all of these
kite sort of shaped pieces
and sew them together make sure you nest your seams you’re going to sew all of these together until you have a circle and
you’re going to leave the very last seam unsewn
just like the picture in the pattern shows now as you’re sewing these pieces all together you’re going to have a lot of bulk right here at the end don’t even worry about that just kind of sew off the edge because we’re about to cut this off anyway the next thing you do is to trim off this middle section
you can decide how big of an opening you want here I’m just going to cut it just outside of this red just like right around in here just kind of follow the line of your stripes and then it will be ready for quilting and binding and okay so here is your tree skirt
and see at the bottom there where I left it open
so this looks really large when I’m holding it up but when it’s under the tree it’s a really nice size so I hope you like that pattern and if you did please hit the like button hit the little bell so you get notified every time we put up a new video and don’t forget to subscribe
We’ll see you next week with a brand new pattern or a block or whatever we come up with happy sewing
I am tes scholtz with tulip square and today I’m going to show you how to make this
I’m stepping on it and let’s hop over to the showing machine and I’ll sew you
darn it 😀