While perusing the lovely goodness at Anthropologie, I stumbled across this gorgeous, giant pom pom tree skirt. I was in love! But not with the price tag…it was over $200! I decided that instead of spending a small fortune on a tree skirt that I used one month a year, I would try to create my own! And it is so easy. You’ll definitely want to make your own too!

Materials

Plain tree skirt - I bought a really cheap one from Amazon, but I didn’t love it enough to want to share it with you! The quality wasn’t great! I would recommend either finding one you like or making your own out of a simple piece of felt. That is really all this one above that I ordered from Amazon is! If I had known that it would just be a piece of felt, I would have made my own.
Yarn in different colors and thicknesses. I used chunky yarn, regular yarn, and Omegacryl to get a large variety of textures.
Large pom pom maker - My favorite is the Clover brand 85 mm size. You can find it here on Amazon. And bonus, you get a smaller maker with this set too!
Sharp Scissors - You’ll need something with a fine tip. I love these Fiskars ones.
A large eyed yarn needle - This project works best with a metal one, like these.

How To

Begin by making your giant pom poms. If you need a tutorial on how to make the perfect pom pom, I have a video that shows how to do just that!

To add the variety of colors and types of yarn, just wind around the pom pom maker a little bit, then cut the yarn (keep holding on to the end though until it is held in place by more yarn!), and switch colors. I just do little sections around the pom pom maker. If you go all the way across one side, you will get more of a striped look. I like it to be a little more clustered, so I wind in just one spot on the maker, then move onto another spot. Just make sure that your ends get covered to hold the different sections in place.
When tying off your pom pom, make that piece of yarn long and don’t trim it when trimming your pom pom. You will use this tying string to stitch your pom pom onto your tree skirt.
Once you have all of your pom poms made and trimmed, you can start stitching them onto your tree skirt. String your needle with one end of the center (tying) string of your pom pom. You will stitch through the edge of your tree skirt with this end first. Don’t go too close to the edge though! These are heavy pom poms and if you get too close to the edge, they could tear the fabric and rip through the skirt. I stitched about an inch to an inch and a half from the edge.
Once the first end is through, do the same thing with the other pom pom string end. You want to have about a half inch in between each of these inserted strands so that you can tie them and not rip through the fabric. The photo below shows both ends stitched through and with a half inch between them.

Now you can tie your knot on the back with these two ends. Make sure it is a double knot.

Trim your ends so that they don’t show from the top side, but don’t cut them too close so that the knot could come out.
These pom poms are so heavy that they will be a little wobbly on the tree skirt. Since the skirt will most likely just be lying on the floor, that won’t be a big problem. If you do want a little more stability, you can always add a few dabs of hot glue to secure them in place a bit. You could also use another piece of yarn to stitch through the tree skirt and pom pom to add more reinforcement. For my purposes, I just left them with this one stitch because it just sits under my tree and doesn’t need to be moved around.

The end result is so fantastic! Those colorful pom poms on the white tree skirt really pop and stand out. The extra large size of the pom poms makes it so whimsical too! Hopefully this fun skirt decks your halls (and floors!) for years to come!