skirts | organised castle

I have a completed garment to share with you this week.

This is the top I have made to take to Singapore later in the year. I bought the fabric a couple of months ago at Sckafs Fabrics at Indooroopilly Shopping Centre. The prices are not cheap but they have a range of top-quality fabrics that you won’t find in Spotlight or Lincraft. This is a lightweight 100% cotton fabric but it looks luxurious and would be suitable for wearing in the evening.

I made a prototype here and the only adjustment I have made is to make the sleeves a bit longer so that they are elbow-length.

Remember this skirt?

Weeks ago I said that it was finished apart from the handsewing – yoke facing and hem. It has remained in that state for several weeks but today I did the hem and hopefully the facing will be done by next week. It was this skirt that I had in mind when I chose the fabric for the top. There are many colours in the floral pattern, including mint green. I think the top will look equally good with black or white trousers.

This skirt was even less advanced so today I attached the yoke and facing, inserted the zip and hemmed it. There is now only the handstitching on the facing to do.

The reason I did not finish the skirts completely was that I ran out of daylight. I find handsewing in artificial light quite difficult so prefer to do it during the day. Even though the skirts are not quite finished, I am pleased with my progress this week.

I think we have all heard the mantra of “One In, One Out” in order to keep the clutter under control. This week I have gone one better. I made this skirt last week.

Now I have sent these 2 skirts to the op shop.

I bought the navy/white one when we were in the USA in 2012 and it is wearing out. The lightweight fabric is pulling away from the seams at the sides of the waistband and I noticed that it has actually split along the fold of the hem in a couple of places so definitely time to go. The red/white skirt is one that I made a while ago. I attempted to make a pattern from the navy/white skirt. It was reasonably successful and I have certainly worn it many times but it is far from perfect. Now that i have a perfect pattern I will be using that for future skirts that I make. Time for these to go.