#skirts!

//I gotchu ;3

//skirt babies ! OwO

I went to a nearby Goodwill. I found a sweater, a shawl, and this thing. We think it was a nightgown? It was pretty worn down, missing buttons, had some holes, but I thought it would make a really neat skirt.

Bought it, brought it home, and seam ripped it apart.

Had to regather the skirt after I seam ripped it. It went fairly quickly.

I found it was quite difficult to find a good spot to cut the waist band out of, but managed to get it out of the old sleeves. I cut one of the waist bands in half - not perfectly, I gave one side an extra inch. This was for the back closure, as I didn’t want it to be on the side.

I sewed one side of the band to the skirt to hold the gathering in place.

I then made a placket and sewed that into place before I hand-felled the other side of the waist band into place.

Overall, I’m very happy with this skirt. I was thinking I might benefit from some kind of petite coat to flare it out a bit. I might visit that later. In the meantime I have a skirt pattern I’m testing out.

I had some left over cotton from an old cosplay project. The Four Link’s one. I bought two different lighter blues for our friend and he picked the one he wanted, I held onto the other for myself.

I had a small problem, the fabric wasn’t wide enough to get the straight grain of the pattern aligned with the straight grain of the skirt. I know this is a BIG problem, but I couldn’t make it work. So before I go any further, I have the skirt panels hanging to see if I can get that bias to stretch out and I can cut them back into shape.

I’m doing this now because I purchased some wool fabrics that I’d like to make some skirts out of. They are much wider and the pattern should fit. I’m just trying to figure out if I like the shape of the skirt at all before I cut my nice wools.