a little red skirt
I needed some more corduroy for the garden sprites - don’t you just love corduroy, I do - so ventured into the city yesterday afternoon to visit Lincraft (used to be a decent fabric shop but then decided to sell lots and lots of decorating crap and has more scrapbook supplies than fabric - then it went broke and now it’s just sad).
They had a nice pink for Pellyrosa and an interesting pale gold for Lemondandy - and only a little bit of the wonderful red that I used for Mellitupple. So I bought all of it. It was only 1.5 metres at $8 per metre - so that would give me a good value winter skirt.
Now I’m a lazy lazy seamstress and usually only whack two rectangles together, hem the bottom and shove some elastic in the top - my mother assures me such a waistline is most unbecoming but I just like the pretty fabrics! Corduroy, however, would not look fondly upon a piece of elastic.
So I got out …
which I bought last year - given my love of skirts - and never used. After a bit of fiddling, I was at the sewing machine. Whipped up the side seams, Simon did the overcasting for me with his teeth …
(wee bit of an issue with size, I should have allowed another 1/2 inch on each side - I like things roomy - but didn’t, so had to do tiny seams - corduroy doesn’t like tiny seams)
… plonked in the zip (and I didn’t even curse!) and then on with some pretty French gimp I bought years and years ago in Melbourne.
The cursing at this stage was profound and frequent - perhaps this was due to the fact I broke TWO NEEDLES stitching on this wretched gimp.
I faced it with some civil war fabric - nice and smooth and flat - as opposed to bulky and uncomfortable which is what we would have had if we had used corduroy.
and voila! I’m dressed and ready for work …
I’m not sure I like the gimp … here’s a close up
(bit hard when you can only point the camera in the general direction and just hope it’s aimed at the right spot!)
There it is! What do you think - leave it on or take it off? Don’t know - but it’s time for work so bye!
17 May, 2008 at 12:24 pm
I think leave it on. Adds a nice finishing touch. And I really like your shoes.
17 May, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Leave it on… I like it. The skirt looks wonderful :-) Good job. You should use the book more often -I’m a big fan of the two-rectangles-and-elastic-skirt too…. Lazy lazy lazy! LOL!
19 May, 2008 at 1:49 am
I agree with the previous comments - I would leave it on! Yes, your shoes look cute and VERY comfy! ;)
22 May, 2008 at 3:30 am
I love it…I have been wondering about venturing in to self-clothing, yours looks so cute that I just might!
17 July, 2008 at 12:13 pm
looks cute. If you are experimenting, also try a skirt with the seams on the outside…would be kinda funky. Or it could look awful - you just have to try!