My Cute Skirt

I did a guest post on my sister, Sharon's, blog to celebrate September Sewing month. So I thought I might as well put it on my  blog to, for posterities sake. I've got to show that I can be domestic every once in a while.

 A couple of months ago I made some dresses for my girls and they never wear them. I was sad because the fabric was so cute that I felt like they were completely wasted. Then I thought, if I made them skirts, they would wear those.  I still had leftover material and so I got to work making them some cutsie type skirts that could be worn to church or school or for just casual wear.  I followed this tutorial on how to make them. Click here.

 They always want to wear their skirts which makes me feel better about sewing for them.

After making their skirts, I still had fabric left over and so I attempted, by just eyeing it, to make myself a skirt. I didn't want mine to be straight either, so I cut at a diagonal from the top of my skirt to the bottom to create a more A-line. I also didn't want elastic around the entire top of the skirt so I only added it on the back. It ended up turning out pretty good.

My only qualm is that I think the back is too puffy. I would have liked it to lie down more smoothly like the front panel does. I think my goal for next year is to be able to do zippers. If this skirt had a zipper instead of a granny elastic band in the back, it would look so much nicer.

I just got a new sewing machine with all sorts of gadgets and so who knows what amazing sewing surprises will come out of me next year when I am featured on Sharon's blog, but until then, enjoy looking at this close up picture of my super cute skirt.