Christmas Tree Skirt

What Kind of Christmas Tree Skirt Is Right for Your Tree?

A Christmas tree skirt can be functional, decorative, and in most cases, both. It's a beautiful touch to any tree, complementing a color scheme, design, or theme. Indeed, a Christmas tree skirt provides a bit of "curb-side appeal," fashionably peeping out from a mountain of gifts while also concealing the tree base (or stand).

As for which Christmas tree skirt to get, this is entirely dependent on preference, need, and tradition. Perhaps your family has a tree skirt that's been passed down. If so, then an heirloom as such will be your choice, unless of course instead of being used, it's hung in the back of the tree as a striking backdrop. As for the rest of us who are without an heirloom, then the question is how to decide which is best for you.

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The choices are many. Christmas tree skirts can be homemade or store-bought, elegant or fun. For the "do it yourself" skirt, even draping fabric around the base of a tree qualifies. Sewing patterns are also readily available from fabric and Christmas shops, which give you control over the design, style, color, and fabric.

Readymade Christmas tree skirts can prove just as versatile though, as shops nowadays offer as many choices as possible to meet your request. Currently, the popular preference has been leaning toward the elegant, showcasing rich velvet, satin trimming, and lovely embellishments like beading. That said, rustic designs, such as quilt or patchwork, are typically in vogue too.

Though the origin of Christmas tree skirts remains somewhat of a mystery, experts believe it originated in Germany, along with the tradition of tree-decorating overall. When candles were added to the tree boughs, a skirt was added to the base to catch the melted wax. Thus, the Christmas tree skirt was originally invented for functionality, but has evolved over time to be decorative as well, emerging a beautiful accent to complete your tree's look, top to bottom.

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Christmas Tree Skirt Themes

Christmas tree skirt themes are as varied as the imagination, with designers creating all kinds to meet your need and preference. While making your own is always an option, there are more than enough readymade Christmas tree skirts today to choose from.

For example, for a Victorian design, you might look for a Christmas tree skirt featuring rich hues of red, green, and gold, made of velvet, trimmed in satin. For a rustic theme, a patchwork or quilted Christmas tree skirt would look gorgeous edging a mountain of Christmas gifts. For a winter wonderland theme, go with an all-white skirt or perhaps one with silver embellishment or a trimming of red or blue.

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Simple to elegant, a Christmas tree skirt can be anything you please and should ultimately complement the theme of your other Christmas decorations. For the most part, a tree skirt is an accent, not the starting point for your Christmas decorating. However, it can indeed be the finishing touch that pulls your entire theme together.

While the Christmas tree skirt will eventually be covered by gifts, it's still important to many of us that it reflect a particular theme. A western motif, Disney vignette, Thomas Kinkade, not to mention sports, tropical, or retro - from golf balls to Hawaiian palm trees to polka-dots!

One other design option that's growing in popularity is to personalize a Christmas tree skirt with the family's name. If embroidered around the outer edge of the skirt, then even when gifts are placed on top of it, the name will still be visible. The theme thus being your entire family, which is one that can never go wrong.

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Christmas Tree Skirt - Buy Readymade or a Pattern?

Nowadays, Christmas tree skirts come in a great number of designs and themes. From elegant Victorian to charming rustic to tropical fun, you'll find it in sewing patterns or readymade in the store. Whatever your imagination, retailers are sure to have it.

For the widest variety of Christmas tree skirts, consider looking online at Christmas shops and catalogs, which are open year-round. As the Christmas season nears, brick-and-mortar shops will also begin to spring up, but for the widest variety, online or mail-order is probably best given the breadth of the inventory. However, the one advantage to purchasing a Christmas tree skirt from a local shop is that you can return or exchange it, should it not work out with your Christmas theme or color scheme.

As for making your own Christmas tree skirt, if so, you can create an heirloom for generations to come. In coming up with ideas for your own, it can be as simple as draping a piece of beautiful material under the tree, providing a background for gifts and camouflage for the tree stand. This being said, a homemade skirt can also be a complicated piece of artwork.

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Heirloom Christmas tree skirts usually feature some sort of unique embellishment that makes it one-of-a-kind, such as custom needle-pointing, quilting, crocheting, or cross-stitching of symbols or names. Skirt patterns can be purchased from fabric stores or found online. Popular fabric choices include velvet, tapestry, felt, burlap, patchwork, and lame and metallics for pop. Personalization is also a timeless way to create a Christmas tree skirt that is your family's alone. An instant heirloom to be cherished.

One note regarding care, is if you have an heirloom Christmas tree skirt that's used year after year, be sure to take a moment to gently iron it once it's been removed from storage. This will help make it good as new upon each use.