No Sew Ruffle Christmas Tree Skirt

Let me start of by saying

Happy Halloween!

Now thats out of the way, let's talk Christmas!

I absolutely love Christmas and I am actually even listening to Christmas music right now while I write this post.

Last weekend my sisters and my mom got together for a craft day.  Oh how I love our family craft days.

My sister Carla worked on the baby booties that she sells.  They are so cute!

My sister Tracy also worked on a Christmas Tree Skirt.  She created her pattern from scratch with her Sillhouette software.  She is a pretty smart cookie!

My Mom was crocheting a scarf.  She is pretty talented too even though she wont admit it.

I wanted to make a Christmas Tree Skirt and found this little beauty on Pinterest.  This one is made by Puttin' on the G.R.I.T.S.

I love all of the ruffles and the best part is, it is NO SEW!  I love those two little words.  AND I could use my current UGLY Tree skirt as the base and hot glue my ruffles onto that.

This is my tree skirt BEFORE

And this is the AFTER.  I think there is a huge improvement!

I told my husband the only proper wayt to take a picture of the skirt would be to put the Christmas tree up, but he didn't go got it.  I tried.

I started by picking my fabric.  I know on Pinterest there are several different styles of this No Sew Ruffled Christmas Tree Skirt and I couldn't decide if I wanted to use burlap, muslin, satin, cotton, or a combination.  Then I found this fabric at Hobby Lobby and I knew right away it was going to be my Christmas Tree Skirt.

I can't remember the exact name of the fabric but it is a heavy cotton almost like a canvas.

I cut the fabric into 3 inch wide strips and got on the floor with my glue gun, lots of glue sticks, and my ugly old tree skirt.

I started at the bottom of the skirt alternating the two colors in rows until I got  to the center. If you look at the very center it doesn't match perfectly but I figure that will be right under the center of the tree and most people don't crawl around under there (unless of course you are a small white Chihuahua dog that lives in my house.  She loves to hang out under the Christmas Tree, but I don't think she will point it out to anyone either).

I absolutely love how it turned out and even my husband said it was a HUGE improvement, and that is saying something.

The tutorial did say that you would need a total of about 4 yards but I had at least 3/4 yard of EACH of my pieces of fabric.  So I guess it depends on how wide you cut your strips and how close you put your ruffles.

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