I found a beautiful skirt with tutorial on Grand Revival Designs. I showed it to Pasha and we both decided that she had to have one! I quickly scanned the instructions and decided that it wasn't that hard but labor intensive because of the pleats!
I would curse myself quite often during the making of the skirt. I measured everything and cut accordingly. Everything was fine until I read the pleat instructions. Somehow I couldn't understand it and ended up with a huge skirt part. It was so big that I could have used it to make a pleated wrap skirt for myself!
I was mad, cursing and just in general not a happy camper. I just simply couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong... That fabric was just too beautiful to toss it in to the wader bin! So I decided to ditch the instructions and make a faux wrap skirt. I left the pleats in for the front and wrapped it around 1.5 times. So I started on her right side and stopped on her left side. I attached the waist band and inserted an elastic band. I also made a big bow that I sewed on permanently. Much much easier than the tutorial. If you ever decide to make one and it worked out, let me know maybe you can explain to me where I went wrong!
And this is what I ended up with:
I don't have pictures of Pasha wearing it yet. She loves it though! In fact, she wore it to the tree lighting ceremony choir performance. It was just too dark to get a good picture :-(
Have you sewed up any skirts yet?
Take care,
Me
I love how the skirt turned out and can't wait to see it on Pasha. I looked over the tutorial and I find the instruction on the pleads very confusing myself. Maybe I'll give it a try on some old sheets and see if I can figure it out. I let you know, :D,
ReplyDeleteit's beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI love it.
Pasha guess what happened today my
Wris might be broken or sprained I'll tell you what happened on the weekend.
Luv ya,
nadia