With the leftover fabric from this dress, I decided to make myself a maxi skirt. I bought a simple black maxi last winter and it is probably the most comfortable thing I have ever worn. For a while now, I've been wanting to knock it off, and that is exactly what I did! I used the skirt to make a pattern and now I can make a million replicas if I want. Hooray!
The skirt is only 2 pattern pieces because the front and back are the same and the fold-over waistband is made with just two slightly trapezoidal rectangles.
This skirt was one of the fastest things I've ever made. It seriously sewed up in about a half hr. I started before dinner, ate yummy mediterranean food and drank too much wine and then serged on the waistband when we got home. So easy a tipsy person could do it!
I waited a week to photograph it because I wanted to do it on location and just didn't have the time or energy to do it before now. After work, my brain is fried. I get up around 6am every morning and by 9:30 or 10pm I crash. I've only been doing little sewing projects like this on the weekends.
Thanks to the Boyfriend for going to the beach with me for literally 5 minutes! We couldn't find a parking space and parked illegally just to get these pictures. :)
Going to the trouble to take this picture is priceless, no parking and all. Just the right setting for your truly beautiful beachy skirt.
ReplyDeleteThanks Faye.
DeleteI am loving the summer maxi and yours is no exception. The fabric is just gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteThank you Gail.
ReplyDeleteReally cute skirt for walking on the beach. Or, sitting by the pool with a drink that has an umbrella in it. Or going to the movies, or dinner, or whatever. Adorable. Oh, and yes, kudos to the boyfriend!
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