Totally Wishing "Make Myself a Skirt" had Been Added to the List of New Years Resolutions

You may remember that one of my New Years Resolutions was to make the Nutcracker Doll on the cover of Stitched in Time: Yeah. I haven't even begun working on that. Unless you consider walking by the book on a daily basis and occassionally glancing at the cover, "working" on it. Which I do.

I did recently accomplish something on my ever-growing mental list of things to do....I made myself a skirt.It's the Betsy Ross No Pattern Skirt. I've had the link to it saved on my computer for a long time now while I worked up the nerve to cut into the fabric.

I made a few mistakes while making this and at one point had to rip some seams out and start certain steps over again, but for the most part it came together easily. I would estimate that from start to finish, it took me about five hours, completed over a period of three days. I took things real slow.

The only true flaw is that I made it a bit big in the waist, but that doesn't bother me too much. A lot of my clothes are big in the waist. I have two bad habits:

*When I buy clothes, I never try them on.
*I always misjudge my size and think I'm larger than I am.

So this skirt pretty much fits like everything else in my closet.

I definitely plan on making more of these. Now that I've successfully completed one, I think I can tweak the tutorial a bit to better suit my body and be sure to make it fit in the waist. Plus, since I know not to make the same mistakes as last time, the whole process won't take very long at all.

The style of the skirt is perfect for my life: cute and fun, yet long enough so that all my junk doesn't hang out if I were to mistakenly bend at the waist and not at the knee. Watch for it this spring and summer as I model it (the skirt, not my junk) at grocery stores and play parks all over town.