Monday 9 May 2011

A skirt for dancing

When I saw this ladies' (UK) size 8 cotton skirt in a charity shop last week, I knew it had to come home with me.

This might have been my most satisfying sewing project ever! I just chopped out the side zip, cut a couple of inches off the width to neaten it up, sewed a new side seam and then turned the top outward to form a channel for some elastic. Voila! A dancing skirt for El.


I added a drawstring at the waist just for extra security when those dance moves get too erratic.

Didn't get a photo of her dancing in it, of course, just this face when I asked her:

But it proved good enough for exploring, and sulking in too.


Incidentally the first photo above was taken on a hilltop near us, at a beacon tower (the type where fires were lit in Elizabethan times to signal the invasion of the Spanish Armada). It has the coolest old graffiti.


Just look at those fonts! I suppose if you go to the trouble of taking a hammer and chisel up a hill, you're more likely to take a bit of time and care with your lettering.

2 comments:

Erika said...

Hello, Anne! We think your crafty blog is great, and we want to share it with other sewers and quilters by featuring a link on www.WeAllSew.com! We'll be featuring you as a "Favorite Blog" find all next week. Please let me know if you have any questions about being featured at WeAllSew.com. Thanks so much! Erika

Anne said...

@Erika
Oh wow, that's great! Thanks so much Erika!

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