Despite being home more because of the virus, the past year has still gone by quickly. It seems as though I just finished posting last year's mug rug project. Actually it has been a very busy year. As people stayed home they also put together quilt tops for me to quilt. My quilting projects are still waiting to be finished. I have pieced several tops but they are in the pile with the other tops that are waiting their turn at the machine. I have gotten a couple quilted that are waiting for binding.
This year, since we would be spending Christmas alone, I decided that a small tree would suit us fine. The living room has plenty of things taking up space so a full sized tree wasn't necessary. I order a 4' tree online and when it came I was quite pleased with it. It was on sale so it wasn't expensive, but it looked very nice when decorated. Of course when I set it up I realized that none of my tree skirts would fit it. It would need a smaller one. I looked around at patterns and videos online for inspiration, and found what I wanted. I liked a skirt that one lady had made that just had a hole in the center but no split in the skirt. She said that because it was one piece, she could also use it to sit a centerpiece on, and still slip the skirt through the tree trunk before putting the tree in the stand.. When using under a vase or centerpiece, the centerpiece would cover the hole in the middle. I thought that was a great idea!
Of course I didn't have the proper ruler for cutting the pieces so I found some template plastic and created my own. The guides for the angles were provided by my quilting ruler, and all I had to do was add the seam allowances. I used a piece of snowman fabric for the backing and quilted it on the longarm using an edge to edge pattern. Since the snowman fabric appeared as though it would show through the white, I used two layers of poly batting. I think it turned out well, It is reversible, but I didn't get a picture of the back.
