The Unveiling…

It’s been a mad sprint to the end and I just finished sewing the tree skirt about 2 minutes ago, but it’s done.

When you use as many trees as I do, and you’re not independently wealthy, you can’t go for the super fancy fake trees that look better than the real thing. This white beauty came from Wal-Mart, and if you saw it before it was decorated you would be able to tell. My big secret for decorating a tree is to just pack it stiff with ornaments. I’ve written about it before, but I decorate a tree in layers. This tree was so thin that I really needed something to cover up the pole and the wire branches, so I took plain red and silver ornaments and hung then all the way inside. This has the added benefit of reflecting the lights from the inside out so the whole tree looks like it’s glowing.

I always put the tree skirts off for ages, but I wanted to do better this time. This tree has so much color and so much contrast that I wanted to keep it as simple as possible to not steal all the attention, so I figured out how to make this peppermint strip bias binding. I took the white fabric on the top and the red fabric I used for the underneath and cut 3″ strips on the grain. I sewed the strips altogether and then cut that sewn together cloth on the bias. That gives it that cute slant that makes it look like peppermint instead of gingham.

Thanks for following along, I hope you all found something to inspire you. Now that the tree is done I can turn my attention to some other last minute projects I’ve been putting off, including a last minute gift for an adorable 4 year old nephew. No rest for the weary!