Made from 100% cotton calico with a little bit of nice quality poly-raschel lace at the hem. This skirt is 20 inches/51 cm long. The waist on this is ridiculously small and made with the cheaper elastic that doesn’t have much give at all. Let me know what size you want and I’ll put in a new elastic. Unless you have a 23 inch (59 cm) waist. Then this would fit perfectly.
Made from 100% cotton calico with a black ruffle at the hem. Fully elastic waist measuring 24 inches/61 cm unstretched and the skirt is 20 inches/51 cm long.
The waist of this skirt is made with super-stretchy elastic and will fit up to 30 inches/76 cm without alteration, and can be altered FOR FREE to fit up to 40 inches.
The waist is fitted, and the hem is decorated with a box pleated ruffle and venice lace. The fabric is a poly blend suiting material. I originally purchased it for a costume that was never made, so I’m not sure of the exact content. It apparently doesn’t wrinkle at all, and the fraying is minimal for this type of fabric. Side zip closure.
Waist: 29 inches/74 cm
Length: 21 inches/53 cm
One of my customers needs to take in her skirt a bit, so I put this together so she’ll be able to make the alteration herself as long as she’s got:
Step one: pin the elastic in place.
Step 2: cut the threads holding the seam shut. Step 3: pull out enough elastic to tighten the waist to your required measurement.
Step 4: Re-pin the elastic. Step 5: trim the elastic. Step 6: Stitch it back up. Make sure to catch the elastic when you're sewing it together again! Don't be afraid to go over it two or three times, the more secure the better.
I have decided to attempt to sew and list a skirt every day for the entire month of April.
So far I’ve been late getting the second day’s listing up, but I’m basically 4 for 4. Check out the post below or click the link to my Etsy site to see how I’m doing on this.
I’d also like to try to get one hat a day done but I’m willing to settle for one on average with those. The skirts I’m trying to complete and list on the same day. Every day.
This is partially to see if I can handle turning something I do for joy into a full time gig without going nuts. And this experiment’s timing is fortuitous as I found out my job is disappearing next year. Found that out on day two. :/
Here’s the best I’ve got for the moment.
So I decided to do something besides lolita skirts for a minute, and this is what happened. It’s not quite one of the hippie dresses I used to make back in the day, but it really reminds me of them.
about whether I wasted my time on those rebate cards I had printed.
Another customer found me via Facebook ad. This one’s from Texas.
My page of the old hippie stuff I used to make is finally done. I can’t believe it took me so long to do it. HTML didn’t used to be hard.
