Five simple skirts
Feb. 4th, 2012 01:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elizabeth_mnFinally got the hooks and eyes on so I can call them done!
I used the same basic pattern for all but the last: two pieces, darted, with a slight flare. I tweak it every time I use it, and this is the latest iteration.
A green one in the same linen/rayon that I made a plain skirt of a couple months ago, but with a contrast band in a cotton print.
Key detail:
Two in black, same linen/cotton blend, but one with bias stripes at hem. I love wearing black but after sewing two skirts of it I feel like I am going blind. No more black for a while!
Detail of hem, printed trim:
A border print. I wanted to use this fabric so much, but I couldn’t figure out how to place the border and I didn’t want to buy craploads of it in order to eliminate the border. Finally I realized I could ignore the border and just let it fall asymmetrically on the skirt front; the back just has the scatter print.
A gored, trumpet shape skirt with a yoke in navy cotton twill. I used this pattern, shortened, for a ribbon-trimmed skirt ; it worked out well, so here it is again.
It's a Simplicity pattern; I think I may tweak it a bit ( the yoke side seams bulge a little) and do it again with different fabrics in each gore, maybe ruffles, something inspired by Sew Serendipity. (A book that, I must admit, I page through constantly at work, but can’t bring myself to buy because of its lack of solid content. Lots of pretty ideas, though!)
Those done and out of the way, it's onward to the quilt! I am only a little nervous about this.
I used the same basic pattern for all but the last: two pieces, darted, with a slight flare. I tweak it every time I use it, and this is the latest iteration.
A green one in the same linen/rayon that I made a plain skirt of a couple months ago, but with a contrast band in a cotton print.
Key detail:
Two in black, same linen/cotton blend, but one with bias stripes at hem. I love wearing black but after sewing two skirts of it I feel like I am going blind. No more black for a while!
Detail of hem, printed trim:
A border print. I wanted to use this fabric so much, but I couldn’t figure out how to place the border and I didn’t want to buy craploads of it in order to eliminate the border. Finally I realized I could ignore the border and just let it fall asymmetrically on the skirt front; the back just has the scatter print.
A gored, trumpet shape skirt with a yoke in navy cotton twill. I used this pattern, shortened, for a ribbon-trimmed skirt ; it worked out well, so here it is again.
It's a Simplicity pattern; I think I may tweak it a bit ( the yoke side seams bulge a little) and do it again with different fabrics in each gore, maybe ruffles, something inspired by Sew Serendipity. (A book that, I must admit, I page through constantly at work, but can’t bring myself to buy because of its lack of solid content. Lots of pretty ideas, though!)
Those done and out of the way, it's onward to the quilt! I am only a little nervous about this.
