I just packed for a week’s trip as well as I am using this skirt almost every day. Seriously. I packed one other skirt as well as ONE dress.
I don’t understand what it is — I believe it’s that I’ve been stitching my method with my material stash, utilizing up all the pieces that were meant to have been skirts, 2001-2005. It might be that I’ve got as well lots of gown patterns to sew, to ensure that I can’t choose which one is next. It’s probably, though, a combination of extremely bit time as well as the truth that I can make this skirt in less than two hours. (+ one TV show’s worth of hemming, which doesn’t truly count as “sewing” to me. If you can enjoy TV while doing something it’s not really work.)
It likewise most likely has something to make with my obsession with cardigans, as well as the truth that it is extremely tough to wear a cardigan over a Duro gown (although I’m trying to find a great batwing cardigan to make the attempt).
Needless to say, I don’t make the gored, pointy version. (Although no judgment is implied if that is the one that sings to you.) I have made it, so far, in:
camouflage
black as well as camel striped wool
polka-dot liberty (only brighter than that colorway)
gray wide-wale corduroy
vintage black-and-fuchsia sateen
turquoise blue wool flannel (you can see precisely three inches of this here)
various house dec fabrics, including a number of from Ikea.
To make this, I cut the yoke waistband at least one size smaller than suggested (I don’t like it as low-rise as they believed I would). I do a lapped zipper as well as I add a side pocket. I normally hem it with bias tape or hem lace, as well as hand-stitch the yoke dealing with down. If the material is heavy, I utilize a light cotton print for the yoke & pocket, to keep it from being as well bulky (which is likewise great aesthetically).
In fact, I’ve utilized this pattern so much I’m planning on getting one more copy at the next 99 simplicity sale as well as transferring it to nonwoven interfacing, to make it last longer. I’m likewise going to trace it off in different lengths. Someday. When I have a lot more than two hours plus one episode of something to sew in.
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