Weekend Skirt Build

     So, I got Covid.

    Thankfully the symptoms aren't as bad as they could have been, but when I started throwing up on Thursday, I knew I was going to be home from work for a while. Unfortunately I'm the type of person who starts to get twitchy and guilty when they aren't being "productive" so I had to find a low-stress, low-strain project to work on while I was out. 

    Enter: two and a half yards of fabric I had bought for a skirt years ago and then gotten too bogged down in commission work to ever start on. The trouble with having two sewing jobs (tailor for a costume company and independent fursuit maker) is that by the time you've sewn all day at work, and then come home to sew all evening for a client, your motivation to sew for yourself is more or less gone. But this skirt was something I'd wanted for a while, and I had a few days of nothing to do ahead of me, so I thought "sure, why not?"

(pictured: testing out the shape with scrap elastic and my old flat petticoat, surrounded by mine and my roommate's random cosplay paraphernalia)

 

(How ADORABLE is this pocket? The crochet lace in the middle was taken off some vases after a wedding, and the red piping was gifted to me by my grandma, who also made that little pink pincushion! We have a lot in common. Did you notice the little cherries on the lace around the edge?)

    Here's the finished product! In the end it only took me an evening and a morning to make, and I'm very satisfied with how it turned out. It ended up being the perfect thing to idly work on while watching Fantasy High, and I have just enough fabric left over for perhaps a couple accessories. I'm excited to wear it once I'm all better.

🪻See you next time!🪻