In the fall of 2018, I promised each of our daughters and daughter-in-law that I’d be making them a custom Christmas tree skirt. In 2018, two of them were completed and it wasn’t until the Christmas of 2020 that I got around to completing the other two. Here is the whitetail and mule deer quilted and appliqued tree skirt made for one of our daughter’s family. I purchased the fabric in 2018 and had fussy cut many of the five-inch, deer head wreath hexagons that same year in, thinking I’d have time to complete it. What can I say other than other projects and life got in the way.
By fall 2020 I was determined that this would be the year to finish the other two promised tree skirts. By Thanksgiving 2020, the Peanuts Gang Christmas tree skirt was done (see my other post) and by Christmas, this deer skirt was done (the fourth skirt I’ve made). I did stitch-in-the-ditch quilting around each hexagon. I had purchased a set of red fabric, laser-cut deer and snowflake appliques that became the main focal point of the design. The laser-cut appliques have a backing paper that peels off and then you heat press them on with an iron which activates an adhesive similar to iron-on interfacing. Once the appliques were pressed in place I did machine stitching around each to secure them. I also embroidered a commemorative label and stitched it to the back.
Here are project photos and a photo of the completed skirt under their Christmas tree. Just like the Peanuts Gang Christmas tree skirt, this one required bias binding around the hexagons. This is a perfect design for a home with three grandsons who love to mess around outdoors with their dad and papa. Their dad and papa are avid deer hunters.
