My Starburst Christmas in July Tree Skirt

Here is my scrappy Christmas Tree Skirt

for more Christmas in July sewing fun!

I made this tree skirt with scrap strips from my new

Christmas in July Quilt

and I added some other scrap strips to the mix. 

This tree skirt is made using a quilt-as-you-go method.

I made this tree skirt following the

Free Starburst Tree Skirt Tutorial Here

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 Ev Quilts & Co

I cut my strips in various sizes from 2" to 3" and even sewed some
short strips together to make them long enough for the panels.
This is a great scrap busting pattern.

This tutorial uses the wedge template pattern from ... 

Free Wedge Template @ Gotham Quilts

There is a simple tree shirt pattern with this template if you wanted to use one fabric.

I have had a thought that it would be easy to make a scrappy
"Crazy Quilt" type tree skirt by cutting the 20 wedges of batting
and sewing smaller scraps directly to the batting  wedges with a
sew, flip, quilt method and decorative machine stitches.
It is a plan for another day.

To make this tree skirt you sew two large QAYG panels.

The you cut 10 wedges from each large panel.

It is important to start each of your panels on opposite corners

to achieve the chevron effect. 

My quilty kitties were very helpful while making this tree skirt. 

You sew the QAYG wedges together to make the skirt.

I used my heavy duty walking walking foot on my Janome.

This makes a large tree skirt with a 48" diameter.

Nutmeg and  I made a large pieced width of fabric square for the backing. 

This is what I used to add the banking and binding to my tree skirt.

Maestre helped me quilt the top to the backing.

We used the walking foot and made straight lines radiating from the center.

I cut 2.5" strips and made binding tape.

I did not cut my strips on the bias and it worked for me.

I did an machine binding by sewing one edge of the binding to the front and folding

it to the back and machine stitched the binding to them back.

This method made a secure binding with a line of machine stitching

around the front 1/4" away from the binding.

The tie at the top was made when I added the binding

by leaving long strips on either edge.

I am very pleased with this happy, scrappy goodness.

I am sure my quilty kitties will love laying under the tree 

on their new quilted tree skirt. 

More inspiration may be found 

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#starbursttreeskirt

Happy Christmas in July!