Quilting Challenge -Off-Season November Challenge.

Months have gone by and I just never got around to checking up one the off season quilt challenges until this week. Luckily I had some extra vacation days saved up and took a couple off this week to make for an extra long holiday weekend so I checked in to see what was going on.  Sew something for myself? I can do that. My husband just asked me to buys Christmas tree skirt this year so we don’t have a blanket under the tree again. That’s when I decided to make a tree skirt.

Now I have lots of scraps... see

First I picked out the roll of Christmas scraps and cut out a 36” circle of cotton batting that I was going to use as my base for my scrappy tree skirt. 

I then began to lay pieces of fabric onto the batting and stitching them down in a random pattern. 

 And more pieces... 

And continuing until I covered the entire circle. 

After the pieces were on I put a decorative stitch on all the seams with white thread. 

Next I trimmed away the excess fabric by following around the batting on the back. 

All trimmed up. Next I layered  the circle on top of some red satin type fabric. I pinned it down after smoothing it out, then I basted around the edge to keep the sides together. 

Now I measured the center and drew a 5” circle and a straight line to the edge. I then basted along the line so I could cut out the center and the opening. 

Time to add the binding. I started in the center circle and went all the way around. Not sure how much I used because it was from my stash last year of red binding I made for table runners. 

I added a decorative stitch to close up the binding with green thread. I added two red ribbon ties for each bow on the open sides. 

It only took me about 7 hours to complete this challenge. Hope you enjoyed my runner building post. 

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