Skirt inna Afternoon

[muninnhuginn]

A week or so ago, I threw away my favorite skirt. It had reached the point where the attractive fading of the demin had become all but hole. So I'm feeling a little short of clothes. (Yup, I have few enough things in the wardrobe [other than early 1960s evening dresses that I'll never get into again] that the loss of one skirt is a major problem.)

On the other hand, as well as a nealy-complete jumper, the start of another jumper, and one-and-a-bit colourwork mittens, I have a skirt pattern ready printed on rather nice organic cotton sateen. I've got a zip, sewing thread, and all the tools. I could do it in an afternoon.

I could blog the process, too.

Onwards.

 

Comments

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

Bridget is organising a clothesswap after easter and maybe you should come along - you don't have to swap both ways -it's effectively a communal declutter.

[muninnhuginn]

That sounds good.

(I probably do have stuff to swap, but it's very dated.)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I am suitably impressed with your energy and progress!

[muninnhuginn]

Thank you.

[uk-sef.livejournal.com]

Aha! You're in competition with me, then. Having got fed up of effectively just having one suitable thing to wear (for a particular activity for which most shop-bought stuff is hopeless) for nearly 20 years, I'm trying to make enough new items to wear a different one each week (though not quite all weeks apply). I've only occasionally managed to finish something in an afternoon. Mostly the pre-ironing and cutting out stages have been done much earlier than most of the sewing work; and the final finishing (eg threading elastic) typically gets delayed too.

Of course, my next problem will be storage space ...

[muninnhuginn]

I'm terrible, especially with sewing, at actually finishing stuff. With sewing, this means that there's all the cut out and part sewn objects going to waste--at least with knitting things can be ripped back. A deadline really helps.

Ah, that mythical beast storage space....