A four-year-old lies on her stomach beside the tree, tracing embroidered rooftops with one finger and counting pompoms while the grown-ups linger over breakfast. The skirt under the tree, it turns out, can be part of the story too.
This 52-inch velvet skirt carries a whimsical village scene embroidered in multicolor thread against a white background, with pompoms scattered through the design and more trimming the edge. The colors are cheerful without being loud, at home in a farmhouse front room or a traditional parlor.
A split seam and three ties let you wrap it around the base after the tree is trimmed. Once the gifts are opened, the village stays on view, and someone almost always stops to look.
