Summer Skirt Sew-Along

Here is my skirt!  I finished it a couple of weeks ago but just got around to taking some pictures. 

I wrote a review for the pattern on my blog: http://fashionedbymeg.blogspot.com/2009/08/make-it-perfects-flirty-skirts-pattern.html

Great skirt Meg!  I love the layers. 

Very cute skirt.  You did a great job.

Hello everyone!
Are you working on your skirts?  Anyone have questions?  Don't forget to ask them if you do!  With so many people signed up, I'm sure we can help each other out if needed.

So here's my finished skirt:


I know- it's not at all what I originally said I was going to sew, but there were some problems.  My idea of a peak-a-boo pleated skirt didn't not work.  I mis-read the pattern.  Instead of a whole panel making the pleat, only 2" of each panel would make-up the pleat.  My skirt would then be striped:


This is not what I had in mind at all so I started over.  Instead I made the Circle skirt from the same Hip Skirts pattern. I used one of my very favorite fabrics ever- Paisley Earth from Valorie Wells' Del Hi collection.


This pattern was very simple to make and took no time at all.  I highly recommend it to any level of sewer. 
If you want more details- take a look at my blog.

Please keep working on those skirts.  Summer is flying by people so let's see some finished. 

I did it!  I made my very first adult skirt.  Its a wrap skirt from the S.E.W. workshop book.  Now I just have to get a picture in it!

This is the skirt that I finished before the skirt I really want to do but the other one is still in progress. But I have wanted to do this for about two years, lol, so now it's done and I've worn it twice already. It's actually a refashion of a scarf/shawl.

blogged here:http://www.random-charm.com/?p=1048

Beautiful skirt Cindy. I especially love the fringe!  I've been wanting to look more into refashioning things.  It seems to make more sense to use the stuff we have instead of always buying more. 
I am reminded every time I pick up a vintage sewing machine and see how they re-used little containers to store buttons, bobbins and other miscellaneous notions. I love that!

Thanks Irene. I'm pretty pleased with it even though it totally feels like cheating! It was frightfully easy once I got over my fear of cutting into it.

I guess I grew up with refashioning. My mother made quite a few of my baby dresses out of her own dresses. And now my daughter has gotten to wear some of those same dresses! My mom would make two pairs of jeans for me out of a pair of my dad's used up Navy dungarees. In college I had a sewing machine but no money to buy fabric so I turned to my closet for material. One of my favorite pencil skirts was made from the first pair of pants I bought my husband, then boyfriend (who then grew two more inches, lol, we were young!) A lady at church saw the skirt and told me how she and her sisters used to do that with their father's pants! Now I find myself remaking clothes that my husband and I don't wear into things for the kids. I'm kind of sentimental and being an only child with no cousins close in age I never had hand-me-downs. So things I remake for my kids make me happy.

I've finally made some progress on my Summer Skirt.
1. I changed patterns lol
The pattern I borrowed from a friend she needed back to make a skirt for her granddaughter who is in town
(to be honest I really didn't want to do all that pattern tracing anyway)
So I bought a copy of Sew What! Skirts and I'm making the first skirt in there Singing the Blues a simple A-line skirt.
2. I got my main pieces cut out! I really like the book and I have front and back pieces cut out. I still want to cut out a pocket for it but not the one the book has but Made By Rae's pleated pocket.
I'm hoping to finish it soon. So many other things have been vying for my attention this week.

All the skirts that have been finished look awesome and keep putting me on the guilt trip for not getting mine done yet.

I finished my skirt and I love it! I finished it just in time to wear it to a conference I got many compliments on it. I will post pictures soon, I have never posted pictures on here so I hope I can figure that out.
Lori

I finished my skirt! woohoo! I'll post pics of it later. Thanks for having this sew along it got me to finally sew something for me.   

I'd like to post a picture of my skirt however I don't know how to do this. I need Mac instructions.
Lori

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Lori

I finished mine! This is so typical of how I sew: I've had this pattern (Butterick 4461) for at least a year. Yet when I finally decided to make it, I was too impatient to go the store and get the ribbon trim it called for, or a zipper that actually matched my fabric. (So this has a BRIGHT red zipper... but you can't see it.) My husband is a food editor and frequently buys fabric to use as backdrops for photo shoots. So that's where this fabric came from!
I have a question about seams. I used the "clean finish edge" from this article on the Sew Mama Sew blog http://sewmamasew.com/blog2/?p=488, but I'm wondering what others find the best/easiest way to finish seams? I like the look of the French seams, but would that end up looking bulky under thin cotton?



My blog: www.stichcraftcreations.com

Yeah Holly!  Very cute skirt.  Congrats on getting it done.  I use a serger to finish my seams.  Before that I zigzagged.  I hope to finish my skirt in the next few days.