You're shaking my confidence daily
Lets put this out there first. I don't want to hear. "I wish I could sew." "Your lucky you can sew" "I can't sew"
No I have a good book and I followed the instructions. You can too. I was very adamant for the past 32 years that I couldn't sew. No not me. But I kept trying. You can do anything ewe really want to.
www.nataliedee.com
I have made a handful of skirts from this book Sew What Skirts
Dave helped me draft a pattern last year from my measurements.
Prepinning
I literally sit there with the book in my lap.
The result. I need to tighten the elastic because I made it WAY too big. In the elastic weight skirt you need to make it big enough to come over your bum. Which I did I just was way too generous with the elastic I put in the waist and it keeps slipping down a little.
Yeah and that shirt? It is totally RED not orange. Since it is SO DAMN HOT out I did minimal makeup. I just did an eyewing and mascara and blush. The eye wing came out soo good. I have become a fan of my Covergirl brown eyeliner. (see more here)
See it's red!
Bracelet
Red shirt H&M 2008
Red lace cami Forever 21 2009
Skirt made by me
Sandals Born from TJMaxx courtesy of TJMaxx
Bracelet Gap 2008
Earrings Gift
No I have a good book and I followed the instructions. You can too. I was very adamant for the past 32 years that I couldn't sew. No not me. But I kept trying. You can do anything ewe really want to.
www.nataliedee.com
I have made a handful of skirts from this book Sew What Skirts
Dave helped me draft a pattern last year from my measurements.
Prepinning
I literally sit there with the book in my lap.
The result. I need to tighten the elastic because I made it WAY too big. In the elastic weight skirt you need to make it big enough to come over your bum. Which I did I just was way too generous with the elastic I put in the waist and it keeps slipping down a little.
Yeah and that shirt? It is totally RED not orange. Since it is SO DAMN HOT out I did minimal makeup. I just did an eyewing and mascara and blush. The eye wing came out soo good. I have become a fan of my Covergirl brown eyeliner. (see more here)
See it's red!
Bracelet
Red shirt H&M 2008
Red lace cami Forever 21 2009
Skirt made by me
Sandals Born from TJMaxx courtesy of TJMaxx
Bracelet Gap 2008
Earrings Gift
Comments
It is kinda translucent. Maybe Dave (above you) can tell you what it is as it's from his work.
I had made some with thin tracing paper the first time and the cat DESTROY it upon seeing it.
it's usually stupid expensive in art stores but amazon has it reasonably priced.
it's great for many things because it's translucent, holds pencil and ink well, and it ages nicely.
i started with tracing paper first and it was going to be too much effort for what is basically trash.
The skirt turned out awesome!
I am trying to draft a skirt with a zipper and it is throwing me into convulsions! I am so scared of the zipper!!!!!
I avoid zippers like the plague. I all elastic. I did just buy a foot for zippers but I haven't tried it since I got it.
Yeah. That's it.
The skirt looks lovely on you! I think you did a great job and I love the print that you chose.
Urg I mean 23 years. Yup.
I also don't have the patience for sewing. I used to attack my clothes in a sort of kamikaze way when I was a teenager (Mom had a sewing machine), and make weird things out of scraps. No more!