kyrsyan
Has No Life - Lives on TB
My friends know me for piecing together things to make clothes that I like. Especially in lengths that I like. I have a preference for long full skirts but haven't been abke to wear them for years due to life circumstances. But life has changed. More recently I've been using the yoke of pants that I like and attaching skirts of different styles. And there are plans for making a few pairs of long, full split skirts.
So far I have a lovely yellow cotton gauze skirt with a dark brown yoke. A green swirl skirt with a brown yoke. And a pure work skirt that is strips from the pants legs sewn together to make a full skirt attached to a black yoke. Oh, and a denim yoke with one tier of what will be two to make a pair of split pants.
Anyways, one of the "background" ideas has been to make tiered skirts using squares of material from old shirts. Mainly knit.
A few months ago I discovered square quilt rulers and my life became simpler. Today I decided it was time to take care of the three bags of stuff that was waiting. So now I have one bag of trash and one bag of nicely cut knit squares. Along with some of the knit from necklines and sleeves. And there's a tote of material hiding in my son's closet to add to today's harvest.
Now, even if these don't make it to skirts, I have uses for each size for household things. But I'm looking forward to a few new skirts as well. And I've got a few pieces for swirl skirts to get cut from some denim curtains.
The one fabric I'm wondering about is the stuff from the under armour shirts that my son outgrew. I have a feeling that as a full skirt it will be pretty shapeless. But it may make a comfy house/garden skirt. Or split pants.
So does anyone else do stuff like this?
So far I have a lovely yellow cotton gauze skirt with a dark brown yoke. A green swirl skirt with a brown yoke. And a pure work skirt that is strips from the pants legs sewn together to make a full skirt attached to a black yoke. Oh, and a denim yoke with one tier of what will be two to make a pair of split pants.
Anyways, one of the "background" ideas has been to make tiered skirts using squares of material from old shirts. Mainly knit.
A few months ago I discovered square quilt rulers and my life became simpler. Today I decided it was time to take care of the three bags of stuff that was waiting. So now I have one bag of trash and one bag of nicely cut knit squares. Along with some of the knit from necklines and sleeves. And there's a tote of material hiding in my son's closet to add to today's harvest.
Now, even if these don't make it to skirts, I have uses for each size for household things. But I'm looking forward to a few new skirts as well. And I've got a few pieces for swirl skirts to get cut from some denim curtains.
The one fabric I'm wondering about is the stuff from the under armour shirts that my son outgrew. I have a feeling that as a full skirt it will be pretty shapeless. But it may make a comfy house/garden skirt. Or split pants.
So does anyone else do stuff like this?