Saturday, January 9, 2010

Four

Clothesline

On Tuesday morning my order arrived from Tessuti Fabrics. Within half an hour I had washed and hung the fabric on the line.

Clothesline

And half an hour after that, owing to the heat and the lack of humidity, the fabric was dry. A few hours later, I had made another skirt, my fourth.

Skirt # 4

I wore it today for the first time and got a lot of compliments, including from a random lady at the swimming pool. Unfortunately (and for some unknown reason - I used the same Butterick 6841 pattern I used for skirts 2 and 3) it is a bit (a lot) big for me, so I'll be looking at either taking the darts in and replacing the waistband, or, owing to this little detail near the bottom region, switching the back around and remaking it.

Home Sewing is easy - detail

(Arms coming out my butt. Nice. I only wish I had paid more attention when cutting the pattern out. Nevertheless, it has provided a great deal of hilarity from the Mister and my friends at the Queanbeyan Stitch and Bitch.)

The fabric is pretty awesome. When I saw it, I couldn't help myself and put it straight in the shopping cart. It's an Alexander Henry patchwork fabric and makes this feminist sewist laugh. A lot.

Home Sewing is easy - detail

Home Sewing is easy - detail

And laughing can only be a good thing (except when you're drinking a cup of tea and it comes out your nose).

18 comments:

  1. haha i love the arms!
    this skirt is AWESOME!

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  2. I love the arms too, so funny. That fabric in the top pic is divine. Looking forward to seeing what it turns into.

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  3. Very cute fabric - the arms made me laugh - that's something I'd do too!!

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  4. Such cute fabric and I like the skirt pattern. So simple and classic. You are on a skirt roll!

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  5. Great print - and I have to say that the arms in the centre back did make me laugh!

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  6. Hilarious - both the arms-out-of-the-butt and your commentary!

    And now I'm off to the pool - see, you inspire me in more ways than one.

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  7. or when you grow teeny tiny arms out your butt!
    I love it !!!

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  8. At first your back view photo didn't load completely and I thought the issue was the quote "Now let's make a few sample BUTTon holes the right way."

    Oh dear. I think you'll need to be very carefull how you cut the back piece the second time...

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  9. Ow, hot tea out of the nose due to laughter would be painful!

    I too had a giggle at the arms!

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  10. Oh, you have to leave the arms coming out your butt, that is too hilarious!!

    All lovely fabrics!

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  11. man, you are on a sewing roll right now!

    that fabric is fantastic, can't wait to see what you whip up next!

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  12. Great story there! I love the fabric, arms and all!

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  13. gorgeous fabric..and yes I did chuckle a little at the arms.
    you really are fast though!! fabulous.

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  14. That is so cute, I love the fabric, it's hilarious! I seriously need to take some time to make myself some skirts, this is great inspiration.

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  15. that skirt is just too cool! I love it!

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  16. Hey those two arms might come in handy? cool fabric!!

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  17. Looks great and I love the fabric!

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