A new Skirt!

I made a new skirt over the weekend, surprisingly. There were about fifty gazillion other things I should have been doing (and I came down to the office this morning to find that a deadline which I thought was next Tuesday, was, in fact, this past SATURDAY, oops), but when the sewing machine calls, one must listen.

This is some liberty twill I bought from my old pal Julie at little shop of Treasures, on eBay.co.uk. It’s called “Enchanted Garden,” and here’s a closeup:

And yes, it has all my favorite (bright, cheerful) colors.

And I used orange rickrack to edge the pockets:

And an invisible zipper (which I am only lately a convert to):

And of course a bright blue facing for the waistband:

And for the pocket, too:

I used new look 6410, which I modified to add front scoop pockets. Doing that wasn’t hard — I think it worked on the first try, which was nice. I’ve probably made this skirt two or three times, although never with fabric that I love as much as I love this fabric.

The whole skirt probably took about two and a half hours to make, with about twenty minutes of that time spent looking for a pattern piece that had fallen behind a piece of furniture. (I had the pattern pinned to a corkboard instead of put neatly away, for some reason — probably laziness.) The invisible zipper went in very cooperatively. once you resign yourself to the necessity of basting (and, in my case, of digging out the screwdriver to change the presser foot shank), invisible zippers aren’t really any more trouble than visible ones, and they look so much nicer!

I plan on wearing this skirt with brightly-colored polo shirts with differently-brightly-colored tees under them, and my orange Jack Purcells. At which time it will be really, truly summer.

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