A double fun SKS mail suprise: a nice letter complete with stickers, plus a postcard.
Sara says that it’s the penultimate week of school and was thrilled she got to read in an elementary school classroom.
Mail, Stickers, and SKS: Dream Volume
Month: June 2026
Loved One Postcard from Lake Michigan
The northernmost point of Lake Michigan sure is pretty.
Ariel observes that she likes how this story about grief often makes her forget that it’s a story about grief.
Well said!
SKS ID and OR
Sara reports from “the great 208” that she’s been experiencing humid days with the excellent smell of petrichor.
She also wrote a postcard as the car she was in was driving on I-5 near my house. She was on a road trip and the other companions decreed that there was no stopping to say hi.
Getting All the Mistakes Done Now
Here is the first version of a gathered skirt. It’s pretty much the easiest to make as you can cut a rectangle, gather it, and then slap a waistband on. My instructor though, had us expand the blocks outward to make the skirt bigger.
And the plus of these tiny skirts is that I can make all the mistakes. In this case, I didn’t realize I had sewed together the wrong sides until it was time for the waistband , but I just added the waistband and moved on.
Mental note: do a better job marking front and back.
Tiny Skirt; Big Ruffle
While most skirts have incorporated one element at a time, this one took the flared skirt, made a high/low hemline, and added a ruffle. And goodness do ruffles take time.
Especially so now that I’ve run out of the blue sheet. It didn’t shed, so I never finished the hems. But this white sheet I’m using immediately starts to unravel when I cut it, so I have to do at least a one-fold-over hem. And I don’t have to tell you that a hem on a ruffle is a thing that takes a lot of hemming.
I would not wear a skirt like this at this time; I’m more into covering my legs than exposing them. But it was fun to construct.
And I’m enjoying my collection.
I don’t think I took a picture during the construction of the flared with yoke, but that one is my favorite so far. Flippy cheerleader skirts in my youth had yokes, and I’ve always liked them.