I was quite excited to find this duvet cover at the Union Gospel Mission.
Because…
We have the same one at home.
It would have been fun to reunite the two, but we have enough coverlets in the house.
Although now that I think of it, I could have made it into a fun square dancing skirt.
Now that I have my pattern piece cut, so begins the laying out of the material.
You can’t see the lines I drew when tracing the pattern piece, but you can see my tape marks on the panels. I was worried I wouldn’t have enough room for six, but I did!
I’ve been obsessing over my plans for a split-side skirt (as see on the Stitchery), which I plan to wear for the mystery masquerade party we’ve been invited to in mid-July. But it being halfway through June, I really needed to get started. So here I am drafting the skirt panels. (Finally!)
I drafted a half circle skirt pattern, and then divided the half circle into three. From there, I created a point at the bottom. That’s what makes this a handkerchief skirt, rather than a circle skirt.
The plan is six panels, three front, three back. And then six shorter panels on top of the first. I’m glad to finally get this step done. Sometimes starting a new thing is the hardest part.
It was a lively production of Once Upon a Mattress, with Karin Terry an apt Princess Winnifred. Unlike Carol Burnett, she was quite tiny, but had a huge voice and good comic timing. Andy Baldwin was also good as Prince Dauntless, he of the terrible posture.
Dire messages in whimsical fonts seems to be a feature of this decade.
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.
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.
Having enjoyed Kristina Wong’s previous show at Portland Center Stage, we made sure to come back for her return: an examination of food banks and a variety of attitudes around them using musical parody songs.
We had a great time.
For some reason, the spam texts have figured out that I went by Patty for the first 20 years of my life. Other than various internet reasons, I can’t figure out how they got that information, because even when I was Patty, I was registered to vote under my full name: Patricia.
But the Patty texts have been coming.
