Hello!
I have been bad about updating this blog, but I have taken a bunch of photos of new skirts on my iPhone over the past few months. So I'm putting them all up now, here we go...
This skirt is a near-total fail, I hardly wear it. The fabric is great, but out of my league - it's sorta stretchy which I find intimidating. The border was fun to do - rick-rack on top of bias tape.
This is just a basic skirt, fabric from IKEA. My usual hemming-cheat with bias tape. Should have ironed it before I took this photo. Should have also cleaned my room. Oh well.
This skirt was fun to construct, and simple. The pink underskirt is a basic circle skirt (or was it 3/4?), I added a ribbon hemming and a few buttons to give it weight. The top skirt is the same pattern, just a lot longer. Then I cinched it up with ribbons attached to the waist, using mitten-clips to catch the bottom of the skirt.
This jumper took me way longer than it should have. But I didn't have a pattern, I hadn't worked with jersey cloth before, and I'd never done sleeves before. It's a kiddie-style jumper, snaps up in the crotch, very comfy for lounging around home, has no other practical applications.
I've really enjoyed seeing the amazing clothes people have made in the Steampunk genre. This doesn't exactly fit, but it's sorta along those lines (Victorian-ish). I sewed silk flowers onto the corset (which I did not make). The bloomers and the bustle are actually really simple since I didn't have a pattern.
This fabric seemed springy to me. At first I was going to use black or brown bias tape, but I think the grey is less harsh, I'm glad they had such a good match!
I've looked at this bird ribbon for a long time, but couldn't think up something to do with it. But I finally found some fabric to go along with it. I owe a thank-you to the wonderful ladies at Treadle Yard Goods for helping me pick the blue bias tape.
This spring I ended up doing a whole series of skirts with a contrast color border. Here's a birdy one of that series.
I did a bias-tap waist, I usually don't bother
Another variation on the border-skirt, I like the little hidden bees.
Due to spring fever, I made a couple jumpers. This one is super-easy - doesn't need exact fitting at all. I sewed a ribbon into the waist, so you can cinch it up (or loosen it). The shorts are a bit long, but roll up easily.
I bought some used lace curtains at Savers. I sewed the lace on a border of a knee-length 1/2 circle skirt. This makes it very convenient as an under-skirt to many of my other skirts (an easy way to add a lace-border to a skirt). The lace is pretty wide, so the top-skirt length is pretty flexible.
While in San Francisco this spring I bought one of those skirt-poofers, what are they called, oh yeah petticoats. They are REALLY fun to wear!
Picnic-tested
This is another skirt that goes over the lace skirt. The top-skirt here is made from a used bed sheet (cheap fabric!)
