My Woolly Shed: Cheep! And Chic!

Whilst having a mooch in a fabric shop I came across some birdie fabric which, yes you've got it...I just had to have! My reason being that as I have been spending so much time with my hook and yarn it would only be fair to my sewing machine to get it!

I also purchased a simple skirt pattern to help me ease my way into making my own clothes.

Eager to get started I soon found that measuring my waist was quite a task in itself! Every time I measured I was something completely different, which nearly put me off the whole project altogether! I then decided that it would be easier if I got a skirt out of my wardrobe which I knew fitted and make a pattern from that.

I simply got some baking paper, folded my skirt in half (laying the crease down the straight edge of the paper) and drew around it. Along the waist I got a pin and made holes along where the waist line was and then added a 1.5cm seam allowance to all the edges.

I cut 2 pieces of the main skirt, and 2 pieces for the waist band (front and back). Before sewing anything together I hemmed the bottom seam of the 2 pieces of skirt, and the top seams of the 2 waist band pieces. Afterwards I stitched a waist band piece to the top end of a skirt piece. When I had done this twice I attached the zip to one edge of the skirt.