Skirt Story!
Happy Tuesday everyone!
So as I posted the other night, I finally made a skirt with my own two hands! (Okay and my mother’s two hands. I’m not quite a pro-sewer yet.) I used a ridiculous floral pattern as you can see and it may be a little loud. However, the more I think about it, the more I love it! It is a bit poofy and I wish that were decreased a tad. So this week I think I shall try the WWANW version of it and hope it turns out less poofy.
(By the way, WWANW, if you ever see this, thank you very very much for all the help from your formspring!)
I figure that you can all follow the Freshly Picked tutorial if you want to make your own. However I would like to add my input for you guys.
Helpful Hints for People Not-So-Bright-At-Sewing (Like me!)
1. This may be wrong, but when you turn your skirt right side out at the end, you’re gonna flip the elastic over so the seams you sewed on the elastic disappear under the fabric. I didn’t get this for some reason. So when you sew the elastic on the skirt, MAKE SURE you attach the elastic with the little sewed flap the right way. In other words, when you flip the whole thing around in the end, you want the elastic “right side out”. Just think about it first.
2. Try and portion your fabric and elastic evenly when gathering to sew near the end. Find half of the elastic loop and half of the fabric loop and match them up. Then you can more easily portion each half.
3. Sew in a straight line. Mostly. If you can. I can’t yet. :)
4. Don’t cut your fabric too much bigger than your elastic if you don’t want too much poof.
5. Measure twice, cut once. Cut in straight lines too, alright? Rulers and washable markers are very much your friends.
6. Actually press when told to. It make life easier.
7. Sewing machines actually sew pretty straight by themselves, don’t worry too much.
That’s all I can remember for now! And have patience, be kind to your sewing machine. Pulling too much on the fabric makes your “straight” lines very, very wonky. Oh, and I finally made chocolate chip zucchini bread! Mmm. More posts about that later.
C
