Make a No Sew Ruffled Dropcloth Christmas Tree Skirt

by Christina Dennis

3 Materials

$20

30 Minutes

Easy

A shabby chic inspired Christmas home with a simple and pretty ruffled Christmas tree skirt out of a painter’s drop cloth – no sewing required. This was so easy and inexpensive to make!

make a no sew ruffled dropcloth christmas tree skirt

To make this ruffled tree skirt, all you need is some cotton painter’s dropcloth, some scissors and a glue gun.

First, cut a large circle out of the dropcloth fabric. I tie a string to a pencil, move the pencil to where I want, and create a perfect circle that way. My circle is about 2 1/2 feet wide, but you could make your skirt any size you wish.

Then, fold the cirlce into quarters and cut a small cirlce out of the top point as shown above. You can also cut along one of the folds on the sides to create an opening on the skirt.

Next, tear some strips of dropcloth for the ruffle. My strips are about 3″ wide.

Heat up your gluegun, and then pinch and pleat your stips and glue them down to the outer edge of your dropcloth circle as shown above. You could use a measuring tape and mark out the pleats evenly, but I preferred to eyeball the pleats for this project and not make them so perfect. I think this adds to the vintage, shabby chic quality of this tree skirt.

Once you’ve glued down the ruffle all around the outer edge of your skirt, you’re done! You could glue some ribbon strips along the opening to act as ties for the skirt, but I’ve left my opening free for now.

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Bryan's Workshop on Nov 13, 2017

Lovely!! I love your tree too!

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- 31807774 on Nov 20, 2017
  That was my first thought. What a talented person to make such a tree. Love it.
  
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31807774 on Nov 20, 2017

Christina, What a lovely tree skirt. I love the simplicity of it as well as the elegance and era appearance. Simply well done. Very Lovely.

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