Sewing, sewing, sewing.

Hello my friends! ;)

As you can see todays topic is sewing. (One of my favorite things to do.)So I'm going to show you a super easy skirt pattern! I did three in about a hour and a half.

Normally I don't use patterns, I go by pictures off of Pinterest or off a sewing book. But I felt adventurous.

 This pattern isn't really a pattern, my grandma made us skirts with straight stitching all the time but, It's hard to run in them. So I thought all night trying to figure out how to make them more fuller. So the challenge was excepted! :)

                                    (Please do not take any notice of the pealing wallpaper! ;) Thank you!)


(I don't have any pictures of how I did it so I'll try to explain  it .)

What you'll need is:
Scissors
Measuring tape
Fabric of your chose.
Pins
Safety pins
Elastic
SEWING MACHINE!!!!
Lace maybe?


Ok, so all I did was lay out my folded fabric and cut out a nice large square.(the smaller the square the smaller the skirt.) You shouldn't have two pieces of fabric. You should only have one long piece.

Next you hem the top. (MAKE SURE YOU LEAVE ROOM FOR YOUR ELASTIC!!)
After sewing I took my elastic and put a  safety pin threw it and started to fish it through that hem.

 But, if you know me, I like to take the easy way. You see after doing this twice I got pretty sick of it so I just sewed the elastic on when I was hemming the top.



                                                       See? I hemmed it with the elastic in it.

Next I hemmed the bottom and then sewed the sides together! Tada!!!!!

                                                (I added the lace when I hemmed the bottom.)

I added pink lace to this one you can barely tell though.

                                                        This one is a red and blue plaid.


You can make these skirts as full or as long or as small as you want! Be creative! :)

No I didn't sew this skirt. This pretty skirt, was off a big, short dress that I got from a thrift store.
I really liked the bottom of it so much that I bought it. My scissors came out! (After a while of thinking about what I should do with the dress.)

Off went the top. To the bottom all I had to do was add elastic!! ;) You can do this to a ton of dresses!
It's so easy too!!! Though you might have to hem the top of the skirt before you put in the elastic.

Well, That's all for now!! Oh I want to thank Becca for being my model!!!

Do you have a sewing challenge or a suggestion of what I  should blog about? Please leave a comment below or email me! ;)

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