Stitcher's Guild

And wore it to work!  ;D

The picture of the skirt and the saga of the finishing is on my blog at

http://www.susinok.com

I love this skirt. A simple Butterick six panel A-line, side zipper. I used sueded microfiber. I love this fabric and I will plan on sewing with more microfiber in the future.

Susan  :smug:

Lovely Susan!  Since you're wearing it today, can you get someone to snap a picture of you in it (maybe with their camera phone)?  It's always nice to see people in their new things...

BTW, pet your kitten for me!

Lisa

 

I'll get a modeled shot online soon. It was too busy this morning to get a picture.

I think I'll buy a nice border print and make this pattern again. It was pretty easy. I'll post the pattern particulars, too, once I get home and know what they are.The pattern is still available from Butterick.

Susan

Nice skirt.  I liked your blog.

:)

Great skirt, Susan!  It looks like it would be nice and swirly when you wear it.  Very pretty fabric, too! :)  Isn't it nice to find a pattern you like so much that you want to do it again?

Phew!  I 1/2 years before sewing up! mmmm....I have a few of those!  Congrats on finishing ;D

The Modeled shot is up on my blog! http://www.susinok.com One of my knitter pals took the picture at our meeting at Borders last night. I'm standing there with a cocked hip, so the hem looks uneven. Rest assured, the hem is even! I checked five dozen times in the mirror.

Must get more Microfiber. The pattern I used was Butterick 4136, view C. I shortened it for petite, and sewed the panels together 1 1/2 years ago and then finished it Wednesday evening with much swearing. A friend at work said that she cusses while sewing too. She thinks it's a mark of a good seamstress.

Great skirt and it looks so nice on you!  1 1/2 years huh?  I think I have a few things that have been sitting around here that long.  Perhaps you will inspire me.

Susi ~ I want to add my congrats on the skirt also!  I can't believe you waited 18 months to complete it especially since it is so cute!  Will we see more garments soon?  And I love your blog.  I have bookmarked it so that it will go into my blog reading rotation!

Susan, when I read on your 'blog that you cut the skirt out 1 1/2 years ago and in the meanwhile lost the instructions, the facing pattern piece AND the leftover fabric, I could tell that you are one fearless sewist!  Your skirt is great, and I like the top you paired with it.  Thanks so much for the entertaining 'blog read and the wonderful photo.

Thank you everybody! I am encouraged! I love the skirt, too. Wish the picture were better. I may take another one and post it later. Meanwhile. I'll be trying to tissue fit a pattern this weekend, a simple v-neck top with buttons. I'm also taking advantage of some pattern sales to re-build my pattern stash.

I'm a pretty fearless but easily angered sewer (and swearer, heh). I have always wanted to get to the point that I'm comfortable with sewing and the process becomes as pleasurable and fun as the planning and the product.

Susan

Susan,  The skirt looks great on, too!  I have some projects that have been sitting quite a bit longer than a year and a half! :-[ ;)  The worst is a shirt I started for Pearle before I moved my sewing area from the 2nd floor to the basement.  The pattern uses 2-piece sleeves, and I lost the back sleeve pieces, and have never found the scraps, which is unbelievable, as I thought I saved everything!  Anyway, I just hung it away until they turned up, with the front sleeves and cuffs pinned to the otherwise finished shirt.  It's a plaid, I know he would never wear something that had contrasting sleeves, and so it hangs there rebuking me. 

I always figure these missing pieces will turn up someday.

I have to confess. When I said I'm a beginner sewer, I meant where it comes to using actual commerical patterns, but I was an SCAer (re-enactor) for 20 years and made my own (fairly easy, very early period) medieval clothing all that time. I would just look at a picture and figure it out somehow. I've always been afraid of commmercial patterns and I'll make a few things, get stressed out and then put the stuff away for a while. So putting bias tape on my skirt was business as usual and not fearlessness on my part. I am an old hand at winging it.

Browsing the "big four" pattern books, I'm amazed at the huge choices in historical patterns available now. I'm jealous! I constructed henins (tall pointy hats with veil) out of posterboard with covered in cloth! How there are patterns for the complicated stuff!

Hah Butterick even has a pattern for Scarlett's curtain dress! Someone needs to make it in gingham check with cherries on it... (you know, kitchen curtains...)

I'm not a re-enactor anymore, but I do envy the availability of these patterns!

My goal as a pattern sewer is to get comfortable enough with the process that I can sit down and make my clothes fit me well. I have so many fitting "challenges" it's not funny. Just about every bit of my body needs some sort of alteration. I'm sure I"m not alone in feeling this way, LOL. I just need to learn how to do it. A t-tunic just isn't going to cut it in the office.

Well, Susan, it looks as though you're approaching the fitting thing wisely, one piece at a time.  You've found a skirt pattern that works well for you and have a plan for another skirt using it (that makes it well on it's way to being a Tried and True--TNT--pattern).  Next, you can approach another wardrobe piece and whip it in to shape.  Since you have made medieval clothing, I bet you'll be whipping out great things, just like your skirt, in no time!  Best of luck--and have fun doing it!