Thursday, August 01, 2013

Skirt from failed jacket

Blue skirt - finished. I started this in January or February.

Why did I stop with only the waistband to be stitched down? It was already hemmed even! Oh, yeah, these were for Spring and we didn't have one! Or at least it was so delayed that I kept wearing the winter skirts I had just made and started on some textile art deadlines.

This skirt started out life as fabric I bought at Bombay Fabrics in Bradford ages ago. Some kind of blend I think. The selvedge says Perfect Fabrics! I tried to make a bog coat long jacket from it and failed utterly!
failed bog coat pinned together

So part of it was made into one of the skirts for girls in Ethiopia I was doing. The rest was made into this!

Front

Back

Detail of the walking slit at the back.

I used my own straight skirt pattern for cutting the skirt from the bog coat fabric.

2 comments:

IWOM said...

There are no fails!

Only future refashions!

;-)

IWOM: EOD

LOSTRETROMELBOURNE said...

Good save. I also like the button detail at the back.