Dressing Up Your Galvanized Tub Tree Skirt

I am not sure if you remember or not back when I posted about setting up my Wayfair Christmas tree and how I opted to NOT use the stand that it came with? Well that turned out to be disastrous. If you follow me on FaceBook you already know that the tree ended up toppling over a few days later. That led to us placing the original stand on the tree. I STILL wanted my galvanized tub though so I was a lady on a mission! After calling around we drove 30 minutes to The Tractor Supply Store in a neighboring town to pick up a larger galvanized tub. 

The 28 gallon size tub was just the perfect fit for the tree with its original stand. All we had to do was pick the tree up and place it inside the tub. First though, I had to pretty it up some!:) 

I used 5 inch wide burlap ribbon. You can pick up 5 inch wide burlap ribbon at any craft store. I got mine at Michaels.

Next up I hot glued the burlap ribbon all the way around the tub in the center. You do not need a lot of glue. Just small drops on the edges every few inches will do. Be careful when you push the ribbon down though because the glue will ooze out every now and then.

Next up I ripped up a twin size white sheet I had on hand. I wanted unfinished edges so all I did was rip the sheet in about 4 to 4.5 inch strips. Next I stitched down the middle. You will need to secure your stitch with a few stitches when you first start. I use a 2 for the stitch length on my sewing machine to secure the stitch then I switched over to a 5 which is a very loose stitch. DO NOT secure your stitch at the end. Make sure to leave enough thread at the end for pulling.

Next separate your top and bottom thread. Tug a little on them both to see which one starts to scrunch the fabric up.  Whichever one it is that is the one you want to carefully pull on. DO NOT pull too hard or you will pop your thread and have to start all over.

As you pull you will need to work your ruffle down to the end of the fabric if that makes sense.

After you are done ruffling you will have a strip half the size of what you started with. Because of this I made four identical strips to make sure I had enough length to go around the entire tub.

After you are done ruffling it is now time to loosen up your ruffle. Carefully play with the length making sure that you have the ruffled spaced out nicely. After you are happy with your spacing then tie off the end of your ruffle. I tied mine off three times to ensure it would hold and not pop thru the fabric.

Next up I just hot glued the strips of ruffle around the tub. Where one strip ended I just started another and it looks seamless all the way around.You can not tell I used four different strips.

Now you have a prettied up galvanized tub for your Christmas tree.

Be sure to come back by on Friday for my tree reveal! It looks completely different from years past.

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