Circle Skirt Inspiration

Have you seen the skirts that Rosie’s Whimsy makes? They’re so pretty! Makes me want to make one right now.

All the images are from her etsy store where you can buy one if you want! Or she shares a tutorial for how to make one here. These would be so cute made in a heavier weight fabric for winter! With some cute tights and boots.

Saturday Market Skirt – Choosing Fabrics

So we went to pick out fabrics for our skirt sew-along today. Here is a picture of my choices. They were loosely based on the fabric on the far right.  I think it will look nice! I am hoping that one blue on the left doesn’t seem as bright as it does in the picture.

Here are my cousin’s fabric choices. She is darker skinned than I am and thus chose some darker fabrics that will also work well in the fall.

I think we’re gonna try to sew tomorrow! I can’t wait! :)

Skirt Sew-Along…of sorts

My Aunt, Cousin, and I are planning on making the Saturday Market Skirt this week before school starts. I have been thinking about it…and I think it could be made with fat quarters!

 

By my calculations it would take 14 Fat Quarters for one skirt. Plus fabric for the waistband. That’s not too bad. If fat quarters are $1.50 each…then that would mean that the skirt would cost about $21. Which really isn’t bad at all for a full length custom skirt.

I’m also thinking that I am going to add a zippered waist band. I have some skirts that I’ve made in the past that fit nicely and have a lined yoke with a zipper. I just don’t look good in elastic (who does really?) so I think this will be a good option for me. We shall see! I’m so excited about doing a project with somebody else too!!

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Trash to Treasure

     I whipped this cute skirt out last night. I serged everything but the waistband, and that is only 'cause I can't do a flet serger seam (called a flat-felled seam maybe?). I finally got the serger to gather the way I want. It took a lot of fiddling around. I'm not completely happy with it, but it works. :D I can't wait until spring! It is a fun skirt to twirl in too!
    Now the reason it is trash to treasure is that this fabric was a sheet from Salvation Army (which, btw is a lot nicer than Goodwill). It only costs 3 bucks! Score! :D I'm wanting to make a circle skirt as well and a sheet would be perfect for that. It is plenty wide enough and cheap as well!
     Now I'm off to work on a crinoline some!

P.S. I was going for a 2:1 ratio on each layer, but that didn't work out real well. I couldn't get enough control on my gathers. So I just gathered it as much as possible.
P.P.S. My tension on my sewing machine is shot. Kinda upset about it. I've got it rigged up for right now, but still is very frustrating. I don't know if it can be fixed or not. We'll see.......It's just not holding tension at all.

Skirt made from Old Jeans

I've had a pair of my old jeans torn apart for awhile waiting to become this skirt. I finally got around to it last night. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be! I poured over a couple of tutorials here: http://blog.christyscreations.com/?p=441 and here: http://www.savvyseams.com/clothing/jeanskirt.php . I was wanting to follow the second one and put triangles in the sides, but Elana and I decided it didn't need them. I left the bottom unhemmed, but I did sew a ling about 3/4" up to prevent too much fraying.

P.S. Sorry the photos are so bad! I took them late last night, and the lighting wasn't very good.

Quilt Backing Fabric

Hello all, this is sourpatch!

This is the fabric that Rachel bought for the back of her quilt. It's feminine, yet not too girly, if there is such a thing. The print is flowers, assorted blue flowers and butterfly's to be exact. She is still to get batting to finish the quilt. So right now, the project is on hold.

Right now, as I type, she is making a baby blue pleated skirt to wear in the spring and summer time. She copied the pattern off of one of her store bought white skirts. I'll post pictures when it's done. Signing off ~ sourpatch