A few weeks ago I had a wonderful day with a Pattern Review friend shopping for fabric in San Francisco. I call her a PR friend because I met her at the May Portland PR weekend but we had followed each others reviews for years. It was so exciting to meet Harriet and get acquainted in the real world. She had a trip planned to SF which is about 90 miles away from where I live. So we got together. I showed her my favorite fabric haunts. One of these is FabriX which is a tiny shop with a chaos of discounted fabrics. You never know what will be there. This time I fell in love with several pieces before we even got all the way inside the store as they have barrels with good stuff spilling out the doorway. This is one of these..... a knit backing with knit ruffles already applied. I've never seen anything like this. It appears the ruffles are knit in, not added. I quickly decided to make a tube skirt, wrapped the fabric around my bum to see how much to buy, and made off with one yard at $9.99. I had thought it would be a ten minute project with one seam and elastic serged on for the waist. But as I fiddled around with the fabric I realized I would like the seam sewn to the outside to create a cascade of ruffles. This took a bit more fiddling to figure out how to do this. I started and stopped each part of the seam under a ruffle to keep it flapping free. At the waist, after applying the elastic I stitched down the top part of the ruffle to keep it flat. Fun don't you think.
9 comments:
Gorgeous and perfect for Fall! Great job Ann!
Great work. I made a cardigan out of similar fabric a few months back. Seeing this, I'm kind of sorry that I didn't do a skirt too.
Ann..this is beyond fabulous !
Great skirt. It's very now.
Wonderful skirt. I love the fabric and the colors.
I adore this stunning skirt on you! Enchanting!
That skirt is a runway piece! Very nice.
What a neat skirt--who would guess that it was so simple to make? FabriX is a fun store, kind of a scavenger hunt. You hit the jackpot with that fabric.
This is such an intersting skirt made with an equaly intesting fabric. I like the look with the boots. I did not know that september in California would be cool enough to wear boost. Very nice outfit.
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