So I've been wanting to attempt making a skirt for Molly out of some of these beautiful old fabric samples from my mom's studio. Most of these fabrics have been discontinued so there is no reason to keep these big memos. But I cannot bear to throw away these fabrics so I just *had* to find a use for them and voila....the skirt was born.
In my head I saw this blog post with beautiful photographs of the fabrics and a darling picture of Molly running outside in the sunshine with her skirt a-twirling, but it's 8:15pm...the camera battery is dead.....the sun is not out.....and Molly was not in a model mood. So here are pathetic pictures from my blackberry but they will have to do because I'm just so excited how this turned out!
I asked her to say cheese and she showed me the cheese she was eating.
I'm sure you are distracted by that adorable toddler belly. It is oh so tickle-able! The print is a Brunschwig & Fils fabric that back in 1998 retailed for $168/yd! See why I couldn't throw this stuff away.
pictures of the next skirt...coming as soon as my nimble fingers can sew it together!
3 comments:
Very cute Leigh. Did you have a pattern or just do it off the top of you head?
darling!! i'm so impressed...i see an etsy store in your future ;)
Heidi...I had bookmarked a blog post a long time ago about this cute skirt. I finally decided to sit down and give it a try. The skirt consists of 2 pieces of 3 different sized fabrics and then of course elastic for the waistband. All in all relatively simple to do, but it still takes about 3 hours to get one finished up. I'm going to try adding some gathered pockets to the next one. We'll see how it turns out :)
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