Trust me, those aren't words that I thought I would be typing anytime soon. I am a huge fan of the Great British Sewing Bee but I have always regarding sewing as very much a spectator sport. Memories of enforced sewing lessons at school, having to french seam a blouse and pressing pleats was enough to give me the shivers.
But a chance encounter on Twitter from Jacqui Harding aka Curvyjax pointed the way to this: a tutorial for sewing a skirt in 30 minutes.
I had to admit that I was intruiged and couldn't help popping in to my local yarn and haberdashery shop to browse fabric.
Of course, predictably I couldn't resist this cute mushroom print cotton fabric.
So I came home, dusted off the sewing machine and made a skirt.
Now that I have dug the ironing board out of the pantry I may even indulge in some more sewing - who knows?
I'm not surprised you couldn't resist the fabric - its very cute! The skirt looks great too, and who's going to examine the waistband that closely? Not May and Patrick for sure! I'm sure you'll get a lot of pride in wearing it and saying 'I made this!'
ReplyDeleteThank you - I must admit I felt very chuffed. I've bought some matching fabric to make Japanese Knot bags with the leftovers too.
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