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Looking for Xmas Tree Skirt Charts

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I’m planning a project for next year but since I doubt I can find too many Xmas Tree skirt charts in June, figured I’d look now.  I want to make a cross-stitch tree skirt but it needs to be at least 6′ in diameter (we have a large tree stand) and most of the kit ones are only 4′ (which wouldn’t even cover the stand) or 5′ at most (which would just barely touch the floor).  I had figured that I could make a skirt out of fabric (fleece maybe) in the size I need and then use waste canvas to x-stitch a design on to it.   I’m working on a waste canvas sweatshirt right now to see if I like the technique.  I don’t want to buy a kit because I’m paying for a big chunk of aida I can’t use.  Any suggestions for good sites?  I have young children so anything Santa-ish would be great.  I’m not into the angel stuff much. Susan

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I’m planning a project for next year but since I doubt I can find too many Xmas Tree skirt charts in June, figured I’d look now.  I want to make a cross-stitch tree skirt but it needs to be at least 6′ in diameter (we have a large tree stand) and most of the kit ones are only 4′ (which wouldn’t even cover the stand) or 5′ at most (which would just barely touch the floor).  I had figured that I could make a skirt out of fabric (fleece maybe) in the size I need and then use waste canvas to x-stitch a design on to it.   I’m working on a waste canvas sweatshirt right now to see if I like the technique.  I don’t want to buy a kit because I’m paying for a big chunk of aida I can’t use.  Any suggestions for good sites?  I have young children so anything Santa-ish would be great.  I’m not into the angel stuff much. Susan

This may be rather obscure, but I remember an issue of Cross Stitch and Country Crafts had a ‘12 days of Christmas’ Tree Skirt in one of their issues. This was a late 1988 or early 1989 issue, so you may have to do some digging. The reason I remember it is because the individual ‘days’ could also be stitched and made into ornaments. It was a very pretty design, so you might want to check it out. Joi

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Anyone have any idea where I would go about looking for this design?  I live in a small town so our library won’t likely have this magazine and getting to the "big city" library with two young children in tow is pretty much impossible. Susan – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – This may be rather obscure, but I remember an issue of Cross Stitch and Country Crafts had a ‘12 days of Christmas’ Tree Skirt in one of their issues. This was a late 1988 or early 1989 issue, so you may have to do some digging. The reason I remember it is because the individual ‘days’ could also be stitched and made into ornaments. It was a very pretty design, so you might want to check it out. Joi

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This may be rather obscure, but I remember an issue of Cross Stitch and Country Crafts had a ‘12 days of Christmas’ Tree Skirt in one of their issues. This was a late 1988 or early 1989 issue, so you may have to do some digging. The reason I remember it is because the individual ‘days’ could also be stitched and made into ornaments. It was a very pretty design, so you might want to check it out. Joi

I don’t know which individual issue it was in, but this pattern is in the Christmas 1990 issue of Better Homes and Gardens Cross Stitch Christmas.  This one is nice because you work the designs individually and then sew them on the tree skirt.  The issue of BH&G Cross Stitch Christmas has the "Holiday Study" heirloom stocking on the front.  I believe it’s been issued as a seperate pamphlet, so you could call BH&G I"m sure and ask about it. Good Luck! Lisa — "Since all the world is but a story, it were well for thee to buy the more enduring story, rather than the story that is less enduring." The Judgement of St. Colum Cille (St. Columba of Scotland)

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Anyone have any idea where I would go about looking for this design?  I live in a small town so our library won’t likely have this magazine and getting to the "big city" library with two young children in tow is pretty much impossible.

Perhaps you could try CC&CC website (if they have one) or write to the magazine and ask about obtaining a copy. If they don’t have the actual magazine, they might have the design seperately in a book, calendar,etc. That would probably be the best way to start. I’ve not had very good results trying to find cross-stitch magazines at our local library, and we’re a fairly large city. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – This may be rather obscure, but I remember an issue of Cross Stitch and Country Crafts had a ‘12 days of Christmas’ Tree Skirt in one of their issues. This was a late 1988 or early 1989 issue, so you may have to do some digging. The reason I remember it is because the individual ‘days’ could also be stitched and made into ornaments. It was a very pretty design, so you might want to check it out. Joi

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I’m planning a project for next year but since I doubt I can find too many Xmas Tree skirt charts in June, figured I’d look now.  I want to make a cross-stitch tree skirt but it needs to be at least 6′ in diameter (we have a large tree stand) and most of the kit ones are only 4′ (which wouldn’t even cover the stand) or 5′ at most (which would just barely touch the floor).  I had figured that I could make a skirt out of fabric (fleece maybe) in the size I need and then use waste canvas to x-stitch a design on to it.   I’m working on a waste canvas sweatshirt right now to see if I like the technique.  I don’t want to buy a kit because I’m paying for a big chunk of aida I can’t use.  Any suggestions for good sites?  I have young children so anything Santa-ish would be great.  I’m not into the angel stuff much. Susan This may be rather obscure, but I remember an issue of Cross Stitch and Country Crafts had a ‘12 days of Christmas’ Tree Skirt in one of their issues. This was a late 1988 or early 1989 issue, so you may have to do some digging. The reason I remember it is because the individual ‘days’ could also be stitched and made into ornaments. It was a very pretty design, so you might want to check it out. Joi

 You are right, Joi! It is the March/April ‘89 issue, I just looked at it! It was a ruffled tree skirt made of regular fabric. The 12 days ornaments were stitched separate, finished separate and attached to the skirt at intervals all around. The skirt was not actually stitched! Good idea. Makes it easy to do… — Laurie – somewhere in the SF Bay Area WIP: English Family Garden by LTD      17th Cent. English Sampler by Sandy Orton, TIN      various small ornaments and such!

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I have it and I will snail mail it to you if you email me your address.  I finished the tree skirt.  I got the charts as a promotion from BH &G with the designs in it.  But, I wont be doing the designs again.   I started this ten years ago and am finally completing it.  In fact, I have a story about my tree skirt.  Last year, I posted to this group looking for the instructions since my original mag had disappeared and several stichers here responded and I got the directions.  I bought all of the stuff to make the skirt and got busy and didn’t finish it in time for Christmas.  Then I moved from Utah to Washington where my family lives.  I had some trouble with the directions in the pattern (warning, they do not give enough material for the ruffles around the design in the directions, double the length).  So, I took the project to my mother the seamstress extraordinaire and she fixed it. (I also had problems getting the measurements on the scallops right!) When she saw that I was going to sew the designs to the skirt she flipped.  You are not putting all that work on the floor for the cats to lay on are you?  So she convinced me to do a wall hanging instead. And I must say it turned out gorgeous.  I still have the tree skirt it just is missing the designs which doesnt matter according to my mother since you plunk presents down on it anyway and I also have a wall hanging that has crocheted lace around the designs and they are set in hunter green squares with white sash all around. The good news is it can hang all year round since it isn’t overly Christmassy.  Of course, even if it was, after all that work I am STILL hanging it year round!   Plus, I do have a rather elaborate tree skirt to boot even if it doesnt have cross stitch on it! LOL

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