I immediately fell in love with this Magical Winterland fabric when it came out. The soft shades of blue and green along with the beautiful watercolor scenes are just perfect!! I wasn’t sure what I was going to make with it, but then a friend of mine inspired me to come up with another Christmas tree skirt design (I have different tree skirt pattern available in my shop).

Say hello to the Hexie Tree Skirt!

Hexie Tree Skirt by Amanda Castor of Material Girl Quilts

This pattern uses fat quarters, is beginner friendly and comes together very quickly! You will need a half hexagon template or ruler (I prefer this one by Bev from Flamingo Toes), but there are other options available as well. By sewing these together as half hexagons, it saves us from having to sew Y-seams between each of the full size hexagons!

The pattern also includes two size options (40” or 56”). My tree skirt is the 56” size and as you can see, it fits perfectly under our fat Christmas tree.

For the quilting, I decided to do individual snowflakes inside each hexagon and love the way it turned out. When it comes to binding your tree skirt, I highly recommend using bias binding (versus binding cut straight on the grain). It is very helpful to have some stretch in the binding, especially when sewing it to the tight circle in the center of the tree skirt. I find this video tutorial to be helpful if you’ve never created bias binding before.

In the video tutorial below, I share how to cut your half hexagons from the fat quarters, how to piece them all together into the tree skirt and finally, how to be brave and cut a hole in the center of your beautiful, just completed quilt! 😉

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