Skirt Making Shindig!

So, since we now know we’re having a little girl J I’ve dived back into my crafting after the holidays with renewed gusto! I found this tutorial for baby skirts you can pair over top a onesie and I just loved them. I followed this tutorial:

http://www.danamadeit.com/2012/04/celebrate-baby-tutorial-and-pattern-little-baby-circle-skirt.html

I was able to find a 5 pack of fabric at Michael’s when we were shopping Saturday of fabric pieces that were just right for the 0-3 month size (allegedly. We shall see if it fits a human baby though). But since the fabric was folded up into tiny tiny pieces I had to iron each one out.

Oh yes, check out that expert ironing ability. Score one for me. Then I used the tutorials pattern to cut out over top my fabric, which I folded into quarters (I nearly made the mistake of folding the fabric just in half and would have ended up with a half circle – NOT ideal ha ha). Just know that you need to put the patterns ends on the folded sides, not the cut ones. 

Then came the tricky part for me since I am no guru with a sewing machine – sewing a hem on a circular pattern. This took me some time. And LOTS of swearing pins.

    

The tutorial then instructs me to cut out 14-15” of elastic banding, which I had 2” elastic since I didn’t think myself capable of working with something smaller. I cut that portion out and sewed the raw ends together and then sewed the seam open so I didn’t aggravate my future Lil gal more than I need to with clothing.

At last I could see the light at the end of the tunnel. I had a finished elastic waist band for the little one and a hemmed circle skirt. Now the only thing I had to do was connect them – easy peasy, right? Wrong. At least for me. I pinned and re-pinned that stupid band to the skirt I don’t know how many times trying to follow instructions. Eventually I had to do the opposite of what the tutorial shows and turned the skirt and band inside out and pinned it that way so I could see that I was actually sewing the skirt to the waist band instead of missing the fabric and having a hobo-esque skirt as a finished product.

 In the end I triumphed and ended up with a pretty adorable skirt after everything, but just for giggles I adorned it with a felt rosette pin I made with some scrap felt. When I saw this finished product I won’t lie – I was a bit giddy that I could make something so stinkin’ cute.

 At the end of the day I finished with two skirts, a pink and a yellow one, and a few felt rosette pins as well. Not too shabby (and yes, I definitely patted myself on the back for this). Now I have my fingers crossed this work isn’t in vain and they will actually be wearable, you know, for like a week ha ha.