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Sunday, June 12, 2011

Skirt Week!! Wrap Skirt Attempt 1

It seemed like a good time to do this since it's Skirt Week over at Crafterhours. Go on over to their Flickr pages, with five categories, there are already a bunch of lovely skirts in the pools that will inspire you to
  sew something
Last week or so (were does the time go?) Jess and I were talking about wrap skirts. It's kind of a love hate thing. The comfort factor isn't quite were I want it. The ties tend to shift. Sometimes they take a lot of fabric. I'd been contemplating it since then and Friday night around 7pm (cause that's the way I do things these days) I decided to experiment. 

I started with this much lovely jersey knit, 
 and a scant thirty one inches of yummy Art Gallery fabric. 
I ended up with this. 
I never felt like it was going to gape or fall off or strangle my waist. 
 I won't wear it with my shirt tucked in, this is just to show you how it looks at the top. 
You can also see I haven't managed to hem it yet. I am going to hem it (I am Jessica, promise.) I have decided to round off the angle at the bottom. 
This is how I wore it out on Saturday. Yes I did, un-hemmed and all. It was that comfortable. 
Should I try it again, work out the kinks and tell you how? 
Would you be interested?
This is just because he's so cute and I know that there are those of you who only come here for the chance of seeing this face.