Saturday, July 14, 2007

Spring-- er, summer skirt

Thankfully I finished this before fall. It's my first solo sewing project, thanks to a lot of guidance from my mom. Things I learned: zipper, hem, waistband... um, everything.



Funniest potential blunder: I knew the back should be hemmed slightly longer than the front. I thought an inch difference might do the trick. Right. Like I have an inch's worth of badonkadonk that needs accommodating (wishful thinking). Had my mom not stepped in to suggest a hem-pinning with the skirt on, I might have ended up with something like this:



2 comments:

Sharon said...

Congrats, El! The skirt is SUPER cute - what fabric is it?

elana said...

really cute skirt! way to tackle a zipper! I still haven't recovered from trying to put one in my blasted checkbook clutch....