At the end of January, there was a graduation ceremony again. So I wanted to make something nice. This time I decided to go for a skirt. I had found some blue sparkly stiff stuff that I figured would work nicely. I wanted to try the vintage Simplicity 1076 pattern again. I’d traced it before and used an adapted those to get the pattern to fit my body. The fabric was quite weird and the sparkly threads got caught by the needle and partially ripped out sometimes, but I don’t think anyone could see. I also added some more adornments to the skirt. I started with adding loops to the back to create a corset closure.
I bought two types of ribbon to thread through the loops, and in the end decided to use the black ribbon because I thought it looked better. After finishing the whole thing, I thought that the front was a little boring. So I searched through my stash and found some buttons that I harvested from a jacket and added those to the front.
The skirt is fully lined and the lining doesn’t have the pleats. The skirt also has pockets, because otherwise skirts are not useful. They are nice and large and manage to hold my phone and the schedule for the day and all kinds of other stuff without showing much.
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On the day, I wore it with the cut out shirt and a blue scarf that I bought ages and ages ago. Quite a few people said they liked it. It was a lot of fun to twirl around in it. Since then, I have started a button-down shirt but haven’t managed to finish it, perhaps I’ll get around to that soon-ish.
