Cape for the Christmas tree cross

When we were children, we used cotton wool to hide the unsightly cross of the Christmas tree. Then they wrapped it with a piece of fabric and finally I had the opportunity to sew a real skirt for the Christmas tree. Or rather, a cape for the base of the tree. I sewed the skirt from caps (due to the lack of non-flowing fabric). The beauty of this type of tailoring is that the edge of the fabric does not fray, the snow-white edging is already sewn on and all that remains is to add decorative elements. For decoration, I chose a Christmas plant with bright red flowers - poinsettia. If you are too lazy to sew flowers, you can use pom-poms from caps or store-bought snowflakes.
1. For the cape I needed:

• Caps – 5 pcs.
  
• Threads are red and white.
  
• Scissors.
  
• Centimeter or ruler.

2. For the cape itself you only need 4 caps. We start with them - cut off the corners with pom-poms. If you are fastening the skirt right around the trunk of the tree, then you need to cut off only the very tip of the cap - 1 cm. If you have a bucket or stand, then measure its diameter to avoid the cutout of the cape being too wide or small.



3. Unpick one side seam at a time.
4. Connect the 4 parts of the cape together. Don't forget to leave one seam open.
5.From the white edging, the fifth cap, you need to make blanks for flowers. For each poinsettia you need 3 blanks. The total number of flowers on the cape is 7 pieces. A total of 21 parts are obtained. The length of the white edging is 60 cm. Using simple mathematical calculations, we obtain the width of each petal - 2.8 cm.
6. Cut out pointed double-sided petals from rectangles. It is convenient to cut several blanks at once.






7. Each petal must be folded as shown in the photo.
8. We bend the workpiece in the middle and stitch it with a needle.
9. Add a second petal-shaped piece.
10. And the last third blank is in place.
11. To complete the work, return the needle to the place where we started sewing the flower. We tighten it tightly and secure it, but do not break the thread!




12. Immediately sew the flower onto the cape under the Christmas tree.
13. Now the poinsettia flower has taken its place.
14. All that remains is to make the remaining flowers and secure them to the cape on the cross of the Christmas tree.
15. Cut out narrow strips from the red fabric of the fifth cap and sew them onto both parts of the open seam. We get ties to secure the skirt to the base of the tree.
16. Well, the cape with snow-white flowers has taken its place.
17. It seemed to me that there weren’t enough flowers, so I added a red poinsettia along the white piping of the skirt. In my opinion, it turned out to be too much, but I didn’t bother to correct it. New Year is just around the corner, which means that this year the tree crosspiece will be hidden by this colorful skirt with poinsettia flowers.