Friday Finish: Simply Modern Christmas Tree Skirt

Well, I'm finally able to mark one of the 3 projects off of this quarter's  Finish Along list! Remember, I had this tree skirt all but finished way back when! 

 It only needed to have the binding sewn on!

 I attached the binding before the KCMQG sewing retreat last Saturday and decided to be lazy  brave and sew it down by machine at the retreat rather than my usual hand sewn method. I figure even Santa won't bother to look at the back side to make sure that I caught every inch of the binding with the stitches!

 There are a couple of rough spots, but for the most part, it turned out pretty well. The backing fabric was on the clearance table at JoAnn Fabrics. I like it and think that it matches just great. I like to save where I can!

My goal was to have this ready by Thanksgiving and I made it by a couple of weeks. Yay!
Now, what's next on my UFO list?

Linda Hungerford (Flourishing Palms) and I had coffee this morning while she is visiting in KC. We each picked a number for the other to choose a winner in the Modern Baby book give-aways. Linda picked #14, which turns out to be Sheddy...someone she knows from Florida MQG. Congratulations, Sheddy. Please contact me with your address. (We actually had to pick a second winner because the first one was a no-reply blogger. Everyone, please check to make sure that you have an email attached to your name if you want comments on your blog and to win contests. Otherwise, there is no way to contact you!)

Here is a post on how to check for that  :http://sewmanyways.blogspot.com/2012/07/no-replypublic-service-announcement.html