New Spring Skirt!

Remember how I said I don't have anything on the knitting needles at the moment?  Well, I do have a pile of sewing projects to do!  

I made this little skirt before we went to Florida!  I found the tutorial via pinterest, but it's from here, and it's supposed to be a 20-minute skirt.  :)  It's too bad that it took me 71 minutes . . . yes, I actually timed it . . . but it was still fun and worth it.  :)  I'm sure that it would be a 20-minute skirt for a more skilled seamstress who, perhaps, didn't keep running downstairs to press her seams . . . 

Since it is such a basic skirt "pattern," I knew that I would have to choose a really pretty fabric in order to pull it off.  John says it looks like something a woman carrying a basket of bananas on her head would wear.  :)  

The wide elastic is supposed to give you the option of the belted-skirt-at-the-natural-waist look.  Well, I tried it on that way and both my husband and I just thought it looked too weird.  So, the elastic hides under my long shirts for now.  It always takes me longer than the average bear to acclimate to new fashions . . . plus, I cut my elastic a bit too long so it doesn't sit well at my waist anyway.  Perhaps it will be good for a maternity skirt.  Hopefully I will need a maternity skirt again someday.

Oh, and while you're looking at the skirt tutorial, don't you just love the Ruffles and Stuff blog?  I do!  She has loads of good ideas, and lots of them involve reusing or upcycling things you already have!  And she's a Christian!  I'd really love to try the jersey skirt tutorial sometime.  Wouldn't Gemma look cute in a little grey bubble skirt from one of John's old tees?