Sugar Plum Christmas Tree Skirt

A Fun and Fluffy Accent for Your Christmas Tree!

Hello! Your Christmas Tree Skirt Expert here. And I have another really cute pattern for you this year. You can learn more about my Snowy White Christmas Tree Skirt, Vintage Velvet Christmas Tree Skirt, and Peppermint Christmas Tree Skirts or keep reading to learn more about the Sugar Plum Christmas Tree Skirt!

My method for creating these tree accessories is a bit different from most. I love the look of the added border but hate seeming. So I’ve used a take on short rows to knit the border and fuse it to the tree skirt as you work. This sounds a bit more complicated than it is. In the pattern I provide fully written instructions and have video tutorials on my Youtube Account. If you need a bit more help, I also offer pattern support for all of my knitting patterns.

It’s September now and if you purchase the pattern now, you’ll have a beautiful Sugar Plum Christmas Tree Skirt by the time you’d like to start decorating…which for me is Halloween night!

What Do You Need to Knit the Sugar Plum Christmas Tree Skirt

Yarn

Two skeins of Big Twist Teddy Bear Yarn is plenty for the four foot tall tree skirt. I grabbed mine at Michaels. You’ll actually need about 1.5 skeins. The rest of the yarn you can use to create these little wreath ornaments or a matching porch goose collar!

Knitting Needles:

A bit of personal preference comes into play here. I personally use a US Size 8 circular needles. Because you are knitting the main body of the tree skirt in the round straight needles are out. The length of circular needle is where preference comes into play. I knit this on a KnitPicks US Size 8 wooden knitting needle in two different lengths.

Knitting the Skirt Flat: a 32 inch circular needle is great from the very start. And then I use a shorter circular needle to knit the border while the live stitches are held on the 32 inch needle.

Knitting the Skirt in the Round: Option 1: Start the skirt using US Size 8 Double Pointed Needles and switch to a 16 inch needle when the skirt is large enough. Or, you can use the magic loop technique and start on a longer needle.

I’m knitting another version of this tree skirt and couldn’t be bothered to go in search of my other needles so I used the magic loop technique on my (cringes) 16 inch needles and then switched to the 32 inch needle when there were too many stitches for the 16 inch needles to handle.

Cabling: There is a cable in the border and it will be helpful to have a cable or DPN on hand for this. You can try the technique of cabling a stitch or three without a needle but this scares the daylights out of me.

Pattern:

Here is a link to the pattern on Etsy.