Morroccan Tree Skirt DIY and Happy Holidays!

And a quick little PSA for any trim-clueless people like me, this fringe trim doesn’t come already all fringed-out, it’s stitched together at the end to keep it together so before you start, you’ll need to remove this little piece of string.  I kept seeing trim in colors I liked but thought they were flat so they wouldn’t work and kept trying to look for the fringey stuff.  Then I saw one unraveled and duh!!!  So picture these fringey and you’ll be good.

I did mine in roughly the same dimensions as Gwen’s (55″) but I used fleece instead of wool cause it was cheaper so my square was about 58″.  Fold it into quarters, then cut a small hole in the middle using a rounded corner of something (like a plate).  Make it quite a bit smaller than I did, it only needs to be as bit as your tree trunk/pole so mine ended up being a bit too big.

While it’s still folded, measure the length of one straight side, then make marks around to the other side at the same length and cut along those marks, making your circle. You can faintly see my little purple dots arcing across.

Then just cut a slit down one side and you’ve got your shape.  The fleece is more flexible than wool would be so my edges got pretty rough due to it stretching, but luckily the trim will cover almost all the edges so that jaggedness won’t be seen.

Start by gluing fringe to the inner and outer edges, then measure off some rows in between wherever you want your other rings of large fringe to go (you can kind of see my marks).

Once you have a few rings down, you don’t really have to measure off anymore if you don’t want since you can use those as a guide for the subsequent rings.  After I had five, I just eyeballed laying the rest.

I was a bit worried that mine may not look Morroccan-wedding-blankety enough since I didn’t use the same (or all white) trim like Gwen did but in the end I think it’s alright and I’m really happy with it.  The pure white polyester fringe trim I went back and got, along with the pure white yarn and pom-pom trim evens out the other shades of white fringes I had to use.

Such an improvement!!  I just love that it matches the proportion of our newer, bigger tree and even with all of our presents down you can still see a good 8″ of skirt!  The lights sparkling off the sequins and gold trim is just beautiful and it looks so soft and snowy with the fluffy yarn and bright white.  And it matches perfectly with our weathered white beachy tree!

Thank you Gwen for the inspiration, this puppy will be below our tree for many many years to come. I just can’t stop looking at it, if only all those presents weren’t covering her up!  Psssht that’s crazy talk, nevermind.

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