tree skirt 33 by Editorial Zone
Published Date: 01/02/08
Tree-skirt-33: word count = 440 , keyword density = 2.0% or 2.3% with plural
With all the decorating, cooking and festivities of the Christmas season, the humble tree skirt is often neglected. Yet a tree skirt can be a treasured family heirloom and is easily made. After all, your gifts should look their best, seated on the skirt!
Instead of opting for the dime store flat white and glitter tree skirt, consider some other more imaginative options.
A tree skirt is a four foot wide circle with a doughnut hole in the middle to fit around the tree stand. Draw a rough scale picture on a sheet of note paper. Divide the space and sketch in a design that pleases you. Use colored markers to fill in the design areas.
Decide on the theme of the Christmas tree skirt. Do you want it to be neutral, so that you could use it every year? Surely a red-and-green or red-and-white color scheme would suit most any theme. Gold always works. Do you want angels or gingerbread men or Santas as a motif? When you've got your concept and a few colors and a couple of roaming ideas, proceed as follows:
Think of different materials you could use to emphasize certain elements of your design.
For example, a few rows of gold sequins around the edge of the tree skirt produces an elegant effect. A satin and lace edging has a more traditional, Romanticist flavor. Appliqu?s on a contrasting background lend a country look with a comfortable feel. Jewel-colored satins in a stained glass effect suggest a sophisticated Medieval flavor. There are so many possibilities! Explore them!
Go to your local fabric store. Tell the clerk you want to make a Christmas tree skirt. He or she will surely direct you to numerous patterns for various types of tree skirts, as well as fabrics suited to the project. Any pattern will do, as the shape is fairly consistent amongst all.
You can trim the edges with satin edging, hem facing, rick-rack, woven ribbons, lace, tassels, pompons or just about anything else you find in the trim department of the fabric store. You'll not be short of choices.
In fact,the possibilities available at the fabric store can be so numerous that, without a concept, you won't know what to choose.
That's why the important first step is to create your tree skirt design in a rough sketch on paper, so you have your shopping list loosely defined. All you need are the amounts of each fabric or trim, supplied on the pattern.
Choose your materials and get to work! In just a few hours, you'll have an heirloom tree skirt!
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