For this post, I wanted to do something special. I've been wanting to make a simple skirt for a very long time. I found the perfect tutorial over at Ruffles and Stuff.
I decided to give it a shot. I headed to Jo Ann's, 50% off coupon in hand. I got a yard of 2 in. wide elastic for maybe 1.87 or so. I had about 5 or 6 inches leftover. Of course the first fabric I really liked which was maybe 7 or 8 dollars a yard was the one I chose. I think I got 1 2/3 yards and it was enough for two skirts.
For my waistband, I just turned marked how big I wanted my waistband to be and sewed straight across a few times.
I then noticed this:
Here's my fabric:
Here's my seam. It's weird how everything matches up. That was 100% unplanned.
And now here's my first attempt at a photo shoot where I'm the model. Most of these are my "What the Heck?" faces.
What a great photographer.
Shirt: Delia's Skirt: Me
I had planned on making either another skirt from the leftover fabric or just saving it because I liked it so much. I came home from cheer practice to see my sister had wasted 4 dollars worth of fabric on a skirt. She is the type who will just start cutting and hope it turns out. I would have been fine if that was ANY other fabric. I think she did an okay job but because she didn't ask first, I'm having her pay me back for it. Let's add that to the other money she owes me.