As you cut you can adjust the angle of your strips. You’ll flip the template back and forth across the length of both panels until you have 9 from each panel (total of 18). Slice them up : using your template and long ruler start slicing your triangles.You should now have two 25” x 60” panels of quilted strips!.Sew strips to your batting as you did on your first until you’ve covered this length. Set out your second batting rectangle and lay out your first strips in the opposite diagonal.Once these panels are cut up you won’t notice these issues. If things get too wonky place a few strips in a manner that kind of straightens things back out. Note : This is sort of a quick-and-dirty method and I don’t much worry if the batting starts to stretch or if peices start to curve.
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Continue across batting until you have covered the full piece. Sew another 1/4” seam, press open, and trim even with batting. Keep going : Grab another strip, line up and place face to face with strip on batting.Trim edges even with batting and set aside remainder of strip to use again. Sew a 1/4” seam along one edge of the strip and press the two strips open.
Lay out one of your batting rectangles, take two strips face to face (or start with some scraps) and place diagonal on the batting (make sure the ends of the strips will cover the batting even once you press open).
Start to sew your strips on to your batting : This uses a quilt-as-you-go method so each strip will be secured to the batting as you go along. (In the various pictures on this post you’ll see the live-and-in-color skirts utilize smaller strips and more variation and the black-and-white skirt I cut bigger bolder strips for a different effect.) You will probably cut more strips as you go along so start with maybe 2-3 strips from each fabric to start. Play with this as you make your first panel and find your own rhythm. I like to cut most of my strips between 2” and 3.5”. Cut your fabric : Cut a bunch of width-of-fabric strips in varying sizes. (If you want to make matching stockings you could lengthen your batting to maybe 70” long) This length of batting will give you just enough for the skirt and maybe one extra triangle each in case of miscuts or adjustment. Definitely use something without much loft and stretch. 2 pieces of batting about 25” x 60” each : You could use a bunch of scraps if you need to. Binding strips – Bias binding recommended. 2ish yards for the backing : The skirt by these directions ends up being about 50” diameter so I used a wider denim backing but you could total piece together a backing for this too. Pairing the darks and lights really makes the bursts pop. Try to choose some DARKS and some LIGHTS and everywhere in between. Grab quarter yards, or half yards or just grab a ton of stuff from your stash and have at it! The key to a good burst effect is definitely the light/dark value of your fabrics. You’ll cut these into strips that are WOF (width of fabric) so don’t use fat quarters. Maybe 12 different prints at least? You can make it as random or as uniform as you want. 3ish yards total for the top : Gather a bunch of things you love. Template for triangles (I used this template from a Gotham Quilts tutorial and lengthened it by about an inch or so to the end of the page). I’m a little haphazard with my fabric on this. ((I would LOVE to see what you make! #starbursttreeskirt and tag you need: And I want you to have one too! STAR BURST TREE SKIRT LOVE.Īnd thus, the Star Burst Tree Skirt was born. My chevrons were all over the place, my angles weren’t uniform, my strips weren’t uniform, my colors weren’t totally conventional and I was IN. I thought “that’ll do but who has time to follow directions” and with the method in the back of my head I just WENT FOR IT (Guys, I have looked and looked for that original tutorial that inspired this skirt and can’t find it – so if you think you might know which it was please let me know!!). Somewhere I had seen a tutorial on a very precise chevron skirt using a quilt-as-you-go method. Like, five-days-before-Christmas-NEED-TO-NOW needed. Last year (or was it the year before that? who even knows what years are anymore), I needed to make myself a tree skirt. Who doesn’t love handmade things to treasure year after year?! Happy Friday! Who still has a long list of makes for this season? :HANDS UP: Making and crafting during the holidays is one of our most treasured parts.
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