I made a skirt for myself from the remains of the sparkly silver sequinned fabric. I do think that when it comes to the problem of wearing a fabric of a colour and/or texture that you don’t really feel suits you: then having it in the form of a skirt, thus away from your face, is a terrific solution!
Although I am not sure as yet as to the wisdom of drawing attention to my hips, the widest part of my body by dressing them to closely resemble a disco ball, but we shall see...
I used Vogue 8363, and made the skirt to be a single pieced, double darted front, with deep, front slanted pockets, and a two piece, double darted back with a central invisible zip closure. It is fully lined. Basically the same as the little black skirt I made for Cassie, except that I made the silhouette a tad more A-line, rather than pencil.
I have another piece of ... er, dressmaking advice? a thought? for this sequinned fabric: I didn't want to blunt my good dressmaking shears on those sequins so I tried using my ordinary, cheap household scissors, that I use for paper, sticky tape, cutting open plastic food packaging and just about anything and everything household-y. They worked like a charm! And I saved my good scissors :)
The pewter/silver silk dupion I used for the pockets, pocket lining and waistband was a scrap from the bundle of fabrics, given to me by my friend C from her late mother’s stash, and the grey polyacetate lining fabric was a small leftover piece from this maxi skirt; made years ago and long since passed to charity. btw, I switched back to my good dressmaking shears again for the "proper" fabric :)
The darts in the lining are not stitched but simply folded at the top, and the fold sewed down in the waistband stitching line. This is a good idea when sewing skirt linings, it reduces wearing strain on the thin lining fabric.
I even had the right shade and length grey zip and hook and eye closure in my stash too. So this is a terrific little stash buster skirt, using up a three smallish, different but nicely co-ordinating pieces of fabric which were individually awkward but whose joining together created a harmonious whole arguably more useful than if they had remained a pile of nicely co-ordinating scraps.
And barely a skerrick of fabric is leftover.
Well, maybe just a skerrick…. ;)
Details:
Shirt; Burda 8497, white cotton, details here
Skirt Vogue 8363 fully lined, silver sequined stretch fabric, with pewter silk dupion pockets, pocket lining and waistband, my review of this pattern here.
Sandals; Misano
