Bee is in love with twirly skirts and dresses and basically wears nothing else. She actually pities me in my poor jeans. The fabric is seersucker from a Super Walmart after the Great Cloth Diaper Change two years ago. I have lots left and want to make a skirt for me too. These are self drafted, which is just measuring their waists and length from belly button to knee. I have it noted on the chalkboard in my studio.
Kitten got a classic elastic waist skirt. Ironing for the hem and the casing took most of the time. It is the full width of the fabric so the salvages make the inside seam finished. Four seams: the back, the hem, the casing, and being fancy at the top of the casing. The last is from Oliver + S blog I think, and makes the elastic stay in place much better. It is 9.5 inches long with an unstretched waist of 16 inches.
I got fancy with Bees skirt and tried something I have been looking at for a while, a flat band at the front with elastic at the back. The waist is 18.25 inches unstretched and it is 12.25 inches long.
The band is 1.25 inches high from a cut piece 4" x 26". I made it flat
just over half of the way around and lined the front with a bit of
quilting cotton. . At the back is 3/4 inch elastic sewn into the band and
then tightened last thing (I safety pinned some twill tape to it while I
sewed). I stitched the top the band for body. then the skirt to the outside of the band, then folded the inner side over and top stitched . I would love to make the elastic back just a little bigger and try two parallel rows of narrow elastic.
I used double the width of the fabric, so it is super twirly.
Matching headband. With fold over elastic. But it is not stretchy enough to get onto Bees' head and it does not look right on Kitten, so it will get unmade and turned into something else. Plus my bobbin went rogue on the last seam. So my machine also got a good cleaning out and I finally figured how to pop the casing off the top. A sewing machine brush is a wonderful tool.
Kitten was awake for all but 5 minutes of the sewing so she sat in the bebe pod, or lay on the floor, playing with the baby gate and trying to eat scraps. I have an hour and a half (ish) in the morning and got the small skirt done and most of the big one. I finished setting the skirt into the waistband, did the elastic and the head band in about half an hour after an unsuccessful naptime.
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