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I got this shirt for 18¢ and decided I wanted to wear it to church,
but what to wear with it?
At this point it was 5:00 and we needed to eat dinner, get baths taken,
and night time devotions done! |
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I dug through my stash and found this fabric |
I decided to do a wrap skirt since it didn't require seeing if I had a zipper and I didn't feel like having an elastic waist. I used the math from this
site. I rounded my top measurement up (It was X.3" and I figured it would just make it roomier.) It turned out my fabric wasn't big enough for the pieces (unless I wanted my skirt 15" long!), so I had to piece the 2 front pieces. Then I cut two pieces identically instead of mirrored and I didn't have enough fabric to cut another, so that went in the underneath part! Then when I was sewing, I sewed a seam wrong sides together, so I had to pick it out, and then I sewed the left side to the right side piece so I had to pick out a seam again! Next I had to figure out how to get my ties out of the pieces of fabric left over....
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I had enough that was on the selvedge that I just tucked
the raw edge under and sewed the selvedge edge over the top |
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I made one tie string WAY to long!
I figured it for wraping all the way around my waist instead of just my back |
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The waist was puckering (so much for it just being roomier!), so I added darts.
This also shows the buttonhole for the tie string to go through |
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2 hours later, I was All Finished ☺ (this picture was taken in the morning, though,
since I wasn't going to wake up one of the kids at 11:00 to take it!)
(of course, had it not been so late and I didn't make so many mistakes, it would have gone much quicker!) |
3 comments:
That turned out so nice! Must feel great to be able to sew things that can actually be worn. Haven't quite accomplished that myself...
it's awesome! i wish I could sew like that on the fly!
Looks really good. Nice outfit.
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