Whoo-hoo ! My printer works
again ! My shiny green cable is awesome. It arrived just in time for Week Two of Jenn
Wrenne’s Summer Sew Along. This week’s a simple reversible knit skirt, which my
girls could use lots more of. Just hope I have enough of this scrap fabric –
that purple t-shirt’s made a skirt, a shirt, and a romper already, and I want
to use it on this skirt, too. Already picked out the reversible side, too.
Since it was only two pattern
pieces – needed two skirt pieces and one waistband - I went ahead and cut it
all out. I was looking forward to having a purple skirt again, as I’d dressed
one of the yard sale dolls in the old one, and misplaced the fabric ‘til this
week. Yaay ! A few hours, meals and an embroidery webinar later, I got back to
it. The webinar was interesting, but was really 60% ad, 25% charity fundraiser,
15% chat and some tips. Nothing really I didn’t already know, except that
people who run webinars think we all have 8” x 10” hoops, and unlimited rolls
of some sort of sticky-back water soluble stabilizer, something I’d never heard
of before.
So. The skirt. I started to hem it, running on auto-pilot, forgetting I was making it reversible. Nothing I couldn't back out of, just wasted a bit of time. Had a little
trouble with the very narrow casing waistband, at least, it was narrow by the
time I was done with it ! Luckily, the boo-boo is in the back, so I altered the
pattern piece to be a little thicker, and a little longer. But the fit is
determined by elastic inside the casing, so while it doesn’t look as good in
the back as it should, it fits and looks OK. Compared to the photo with the
pattern, it’s pretty much a match. I’ll probably like it a lot better tomorrow,
when the errors are a little less sharp in my mind. I like the pattern, and it
came out well, so I’m sure to use it again.
Oh, yes, and Jen Wrenne even
complimented the tank top photo ! Said it was nice to see the dolls in other
than Princess-wear, she almost wanted one. I’m glad we’re happy with each
other. ‘Cause I’m already looking forward to Week 3 !
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