Written by Sereina:
This month I finally made a second circle skirt using some fabric I had bought months ago (you can read about my first skirt below). I had picked up this pretty green floral fabric at Jo-Ann's way back in September. Four months later, and I finally made it.
Since I already had a pattern made from last time, I didn't have to spend my time making it and got to start by cutting pieces out instead.
On my first one, I rushed through the process, since I wanted to get it done and wear it so bad. Because of that, my hem turned out pretty bad looking, so with this one I took my time folding and pinning the hem, making it look nice and neat even before I sewed it.
Here's a picture of the hem on the first skirt. It's pretty bad looking.
And then here is the hem on my second skirt. Much better!
My First Colorful, Super Pretty, Amazingly Twirly Circle Skirt
Written by Sereina on March 19, 2011
This week, I sewed a circle skirt. My very first circle skirt. I was super happy when I found a tutorial for a circle skirt with an elastic waist instead of a zipper, and knew I wanted to make one. Also, we had just gotten the latest Jo-Ann Fabrics add in the mail, which included a 50% off coupon. So my mom took me to Jo-Ann's and I picked up a couple yards of a wonderful and colorful fabric. I made the mistake of not creating the pattern before going fabric shopping, so when I was ready to cut out my pieces, I didn't have enough fabric. I was glad there was another 50% off coupon so I could buy enough fabric for the other half of the skirt, since the fabric was normally $9.99 a yard.
Other than not having enough fabric, the skirt was really simple to make. The hardest part was doing the hem. Some parts of it didn't turn out too well and there was an quite a lot of fabric to hem.
I love how it twirls!
