ok sure, I’ve made a few blue skirts before, and I’ve made a few corduroy skirts before, and I’ve even made a few blue corduroy skirts before too… And now I’m welcoming a new one to my wardrobe! The best thing about this one? a totally awesome new pocket!! It’s almost more like a little bag than a pocket, and I could not love that idea more!
Cassie bought this very thin, lightweight, blue cotton corduroy from Tessuti fabrics for me, on my behalf, when she went over to Melbourne on a holiday with her now husband D… it’s quite lovely and it’s languished in my stash for way too long! I made it one of my “use 12” for this year as a way of forcing myself to finally make something with it. It’s crazy, but I often struggle with using my favourite fabrics, preferring somehow to make things with fabric I don’t like very much. It’s like I’m afraid of ruining my favourites… yes I’m trying to get over this…
The pattern is Vogue 1170 a pattern I’ve used several times before, and the ultra cool hip holster pocket is from the Anzu cargo skirt pattern by Waffle Patterns. I really love this pattern and basically bought it as soon as it was released! I would really like to make cargo skirt as per the pattern sometime, when I have the appropriate fabric. Mmm hmmm; as silly as this sounds, because I still feel like I have masses of fabric, I don’t actually have any appropriate fabric in my stash. AMAZING!! I’m really trying to use only stash fabric for the time being, as much as possible. Hey, if I change my mind about this restriction, then I change my mind.
I added a lining, using my own personal skirt block… and some pretty aquamarine teal polyacetate fabric that was already in my stash too. The only thing I had to buy was the zip!
This is the latest thing in my proposed “use 12” for this year…
If you’d like to check out a quick and fun video of the making of this skirt, then please consider having a squizz at my video on my youtube channel… I even worked out how to add music this time, yay!
I’m wearing it here with two of my recently made merino Nettie tees, my self-drafted tights, and boots bought with a birthday voucher given to me by my friends.
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