Festival of Trees: Mini Tree Skirt

In October I had a fabulous customer request a custom made Christmas tree skirt on my Facebook page. I was happy to get to work albeit nervous about such a large project. As that project was in full swing the same amazing customer approached me with a new requested.

A custom made mini Christmas tree skirt. How fun!

Okay, so said amazing customer is my fantastic older sister with a heart of gold. She always knows what is happening in the community and consequently got involved with the Festival of Trees program. I have personally never been but was happy to take part in an event that raises money for Primary Children's Hospital. Participants donate hand decorate trees (and wreaths and more!) and they are auctioned off.

Armed with the leftovers from her tree skirt I searched out a pattern. I found one on this crochetville.com forum post. Scroll about halfway down and you will see member Lisa post a pattern. Her post starts with, "I use Lyn's RR pattern when I make the afghan so this is a variation of her pattern - with a split!"

I simply stopped when it was large enough. It definitely looked unfinished so I added a border with a newly learned picot stitch for the points. I went up the sides and it was the perfect finishing touch to tie it all together. 

I was very pleased with the finished product, but even more impressed when my sister put it all together with her tree! She hand-painted the star ornaments and included a gorgeous hand painted box to house it all if you were ever under the obligation of needing to take it down for some reason. 

And one close-up. 

This project was so much fun to work on and really put me in the Christmas spirit. I can't wait to make next year's mini tree skirt. Thanks to Lisa for the free and easy pattern.