Christmas Tree Skirt Instructions and Demo

At the October meeting, Nan Sanborn demonstrated how she and her sister make quilted Christmas tree skirts. She handed out diagrams and instructions. Her diagrams and instructions can be found here Tree skirt instructions.

Nan also provided a full size template for cutting the wedges of the tree skirt. If you were not at the meeting to get one of her templates, check with Nan, or ask to trace someone else's. Nan noted that newer fabric keeps getting narrower. Her instructions were written for 45" width fabric. You can still use the same instructions for the new narrower (42"?) fabric, but instead of lining up the short edges of the strips, the strips have to be shifted/staggered to fit the template as shown at right.