Tree skirt - Christmas fabric done QAYG onto a used tree skirt

I had a tooth pulled this week and was feeling like a quiet activity so I decided to make a tree skirt.  I had been mulling this idea in my head for a while and wondered if it would work.  I had picked up a used tree skirt during Trash to Treasure without realizing that it was torn.  I have wanted to find a way to make it useful again and was playing with the idea of QAYG strips on the front.  The front was a velvety surface on which someone had very nicely painted several beautiful partridges but with the rip it made trying to repair it impossible.  I cut out the Christmas scraps I had on hand and a few from Mom's pile and looked to see what would be possible.  I found a Merry Christmas border and decided I should work around that.  I added fabric to each end to make it long enough to fit where I thought it would best be seen.  I found the bottom white piece which was tall enough to fill in between the greeting and the edge of the skirt though I had to add to each end to make it wide enough.  I positioned the white piece where I wanted it and then the strip with Merry Christmas so that it was even from side to side upside down over it.  I stitched both down to the skirt using white thread on the top and a red in the bottom so it would blend with the red on the back.  I ironed the greeting over and then started finding more strips to add above.  Most of these were already strips so I did not have to cut too much fabric.  I kept adding strips until I was pass the middle and then used shorter pieces to do each side of the back.  Once finished I stitched from the back really close to the stitched edge to secure all the ends down.  Next,  I trimmed between the line of stitching and the edge of the bottom layer so the stitched edge of the skirt was all that showed.  Then, it was a matter of figuring how I would finish the two edges at the back and the circle for the trunk of the tree.  After a bit of mucking in m supplies I decided to use black seam binding with a decorative stitch in red to finish off those edges.  It worked really well and made a very cool looking tree skirt.  Glad to have made this piece usable again!!  Therese