Skirts
When we had finally finished the holidays around here (seriously, it lasts from Fiona’s birthday in November until the second week of January, which gets a bit exhausting) I started in on my stack of mending, as part of my effort to clean up and reorganize. There were several not very interesting, but good to have done projects like Liam’s pajama pants and fixing the sleeve of Fiona’s black and white dress, but there was also a pair of her brown tights with a hole that I had saved, even though I wasn’t sure what to do with them. I had forgotten that I had them, but I had read Disney’s tutorials for knee socks and a bubble skirt, and now I knew just what to do:
The instructions made it really easy and the whole thing was finished before breakfast. (The beads in the picture were Fiona’s addition). (Also, I love the face in that photo. I said “stand next to your kitchen and I’ll take your picture” “Like this?” So funny.)
Of course one new skirt is never enough.
This was made a few days later, after something had spilled all over the first and a replacement was needed. The request was to use that bright pink floral fabric and “lots of bows”. The top part is from an old pair of pajama pants (the bottoms were already made into summer pants for her) and the whole thing was improvised as I went along, but I like the way it turned out. Sorry the photo isn’t great. She was preoccupied with playing “The toy man”, a version of a game we play frequently around here.
Oh, and for anyone interested, I was able to salvage the ER jimjams! Yay!
Racing stripe!