Friday, December 16, 2011

Another tree skirt

(free pattern at Tall Grass Prairie Studio)

This tree skirt has been in progress for a long time.
It's hard to give someone a tree skirt as a gift -- 
giving it at Christmas doesn't seem to make sense,
because then they have to wait until next year to use it.



My plan was to give this to my sister-in-law at Thanksgiving time,
but I didn't quite get it finished!
But now it's done, and I'm going to mail it soon!!!! --
so that they can enjoy it for at least a few days
before they take their Christmas tree down.


Many years ago my sister-in-law asked me to make a tree skirt
for her family out of some old flannel sheets.
While I know that tree skirt had meaning for her,
I always felt a little bad that I didn't do
 something more interesting with those sheets.
I was just a beginning quilter at the time!
Being able to give her a much more beautiful
 tree skirt makes me feel so much better.



I hope she loves it!
Linking up to Amanda Jean's finish it up Friday --

wonderful inspiration!


And here are my girls after our Church's Christmas program last weekend.
These two were the only 6 year-olds
to specifically request speaking parts in the play --
they did an amazing job and were SO cute as twin sheep!

12 comments:

  1. Just lovely! I've never had a tree skirt, and now that I'm seeing all these great ones popping up all over this year, my tree is looking naked!

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  2. That is such a cute tree skirt! I bet she will love it!

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  3. Your little sheep are too cute!
    Your sister in law is going to love her new tree skirt.

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  4. That tree skirt is wonderful !!!!

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  5. Aww, the pants look fab, and, obviously, every nativity needs twin sheep...

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  6. first off, the girls are SO CUTE! cutest sheep I've ever seen. :)

    And i LOVE your tree skirt. It's perfectly lovely. what a great gift!

    thanks for linking up!

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  7. Such a great tree skirt! I love those stars and the colors you used. The twinnie sheep are super-cute, too!

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  8. Your sheep are so SWEET :o) The tree skirt is very cool! What a wonderful gift!!!!

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  9. The tree skirt is adorable. I am sure your sister-in-law will love it.

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  10. Beautiful! I would love to have a quilted tree skirt someday, but we always use a hooked rug one that my aunt made and I can't seem to part with it. Might have to consider putting up more trees... LoL

    Your little sheep are adorable! :o)

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  11. You did a great job - it's lovely. I one using her pattern last year, and blogged about it here: http://www.bellaloucreative.blogspot.com/2010/10/christmas-tree-skirt.html I shall have to post a finished project photo now. Great job :)

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