Hello quilting friends! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! Our holiday stretched over the course of four days, allowing us to attend three church services, spend lots of quality time with family, and eat way too much food! Did you take down your Christmas decorations already, or will you leave them up through New Years Day? This year my house will stay decorated for a few weeks into January, but I have a very good reason. Mid-December I began working on a crocheted Christmas tree skirt, but I didn’t finish it until this weekend. It turned out so pretty that I need to enjoy it a while before packing it away.
The pattern is called the Buttons & Bobbles Tree Skirt by MJs Off The Hook Designs . It was such a fun and rewarding project. I purchased the pattern on MJ’s Etsy Shop, and I also visited her YouTube channel for the free companion tutorial, which was so helpful to me as a crochet beginner. I had to add a few more bobble rows and fur rows to make my skirt big enough to cover my tree stand, but MJ talks about how to do that in her YouTube tutorial. She also mentions that we should not be concerned about how (or if) our bobbles line up, which I greatly appreciated. I may have gotten off count on a row or two, and some of my bobbles may be bigger than others . . . but this tree skirt is a beauty in my eyes. It’s a mark of my progress in learning something new!
The pattern does call for a button closure, but I positioned the opening to the back side of my Christmas tree and overlapped it a bit. Maybe next fall I will work on adding the detail for the buttons.
In this progress photo you can see that my yarn of choice was Yarn Bee True Colors (white) and Yarn Bee Fur the Moment (cream) from Hobby Lobby. This was my first time using Yarn Bee. I am new to crochet and certainly not a product expert, but I wanted to share that I thought this was terrific yarn to work with. The True Colors yarn is smooth and satiny soft, and the skein had no knots. I would definitely use that yarn again for chunky projects. My hook for this project was a Clover Amour 12.0mm.
Crochet continues to be such an enjoyable “extra” hobby in my life. I’ve only mastered a few stitches and barely scratched the surface of all that crochet has to offer, but I am just tickled with the projects I have completed. And I will repeat what I’ve said in earlier blog posts, if I can do it, so can you!
Thanks for popping in today. See you in 2025!
~Taunja
