My sewing year 2017 wasn't as productive as I would like, which can happen when you actually need to go to an office every day, to afford all the fabric you want to buy.. So here's to a 2018 full of MORE sewing!
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Fabric (cotton, crepe, almost any type that's flowy will do) 2.5-3 m (I used 2.3 meters but it was the ultimate Tetris exercise, no need to put yourself through that) | Scissors | Thread & Sewing machine | Pins | Not in image but enough thin elastic to go around your waist + 1 button
I. To make my skirt with the little fabric I had, I cut 4 pieces the shape of a trapezoid, about double as wide at the bottom as at the top (it doesn't look like that in the image below due to the weird angle I took it in, but it's true). The length for me was about 95 cm for an ankle-length maxi.
II. Then I cut my top pieces, two pieces, same measurements, just the front piece with a scooped neckline.
III. When I got to the sleeves, I was running out of fabric. So I had to make them out of a main piece and an extension:)
IV. Then I assembled the whole thing, same steps as here, just leaving out any neckline or sleeve ruffles (I finished those with a double-fold). Also added a couple of darts to the neckline at the back for a better fit, and made a keyhole opening with a little button closure. Here's one keyhole method.
Closer look at the keyhole.
And finally, after attaching the top to the skirt, I added the elastic by sewing it with a zig-zag onto the seam allowance of the waist seam, on the reverse.
Definitely not cold...:)
Julia
Happy Holidays from Lapland!!! Here's my last DIY of the year - I did some standard panic buffet near me chinese sewing when I realized a couple of days before flying back home
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