New Year... New Skirt?

Happy New Year to all our readers. We hope that you have had a relaxing and restful holiday season.

I have been busy sewing for my mother in law today. Several years ago I made her the Barcelona Skirt by Amy Butler. It is a favourite pattern of mine - I currently have 3!

Anywho, Carol (MIL) asked for another one as she liked wearing hers so much. So shortly after Christmas we took a road trip into Wellington to visit Nancy's. We like to go there every now and then and especially for their sale fabric. Its often gorgeous and only $10 per metre. We found two we liked so got the required two metres. Zips too. All up $45 for two skirts of gorgeous quality quilting cotton.

I am very fussy when I cut out skirts and I save as much material as I possibly can. I knew I could get enough left over for a skirt for Macie too. And that's exactly what I did.

I actually made Macie's first!

I used the Dana Made  - Simple Skirt. Its a fabulous tutorial and lots of fun to do. I love the hem! Its bias tape and super effective. Dana has two suggestions for making the layers less bulky around the waistband and her instructions are super easy to follow.

So Macie had her skirt for about two weeks before Nana did! I had cut Nana's out and overlocked the side and top edges ready to sew and then it sat for 2 weeks on my dinning room table. Today, I was lucky to have Macie go out for several hours in the afternoon so I knuckled down and got them both finished. Two hours later and they were done.

The fabric is two from the same range so they work really well together. The photos here don't really do them justice - I can't find my camera battery recharger so had to take these on the tablet.

Cullen is off right now on his bike with Daddy to deliver them to Nana. Hope she likes them as much as I do!!

Happy sewing in 2014 everyone! A xx