Owl skirt
Written by Elisabeth on August 6, 2008 – 15:52 -It’s several years since my old sewing machine permanently broke down and I simply stopped sewing. I took up a bit of knitting instead and pushed sewing firmly at the back of my mind since a new sewing machine was nowhere to be found in my budget.
But a few months ago I found myself lusting after perfect homemade dresses and skirts. I’m firmly and madly in love with anything shaped like the 70s and 50s - it fits my frame perfectly. But it’s not like pretty a-line skirts or even 50s house-wife-dresses can be found at a store near you. And my two last vintage finds turned out to have a zipper that defected after a few months and the hem of the other one got stuck under my shoe and blatantly unravelled and left me hopping into the tram looking like some sort of hunchbacked idiot.
But lusting is one thing, doing is another. I hade decided that I would wish for a new sewing machine for my birthday in September and tried to wait patiently. But then the wonder that’s Ikea turned out to have a cheap machine that can do all the basics (and after all - what more do most people need?), and I decided that I really had other things I’d much rather get for my birthday!
Well at home I ordered some vintage sewing patterns and some iron on patches and other things I would need for my skirts and dresses.
The first drawback was that all my lovely vintage patterns came in inches… but then again - I just hit google and made the measurements into cm. Then I drew and cut and sewed and pinned together and sewed some more. I was incessantly happy actually! It’s was a bit tricky to hem, but otherwise I was pleased with the process. The result was a pretty, pretty full a-line skirt that reaches just below my knees making it perfect for most kind of weather and safe for work.
And even if the colour of it was a lovely bluegreen I thought it needed some extra jazz namely an iron-on patch from the talented tadpolecreation.
Tags: 70s, a-line skirt, iron-on patch
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