Hi everyone! I made this skirt in one Sunday afternoon using a lovely knit fabric I purchased at a clearance sale at Spotlight. There’s no elastic in the waistline – it uses the stretchiness of the knit fabric for the waistband. I think these skirts are also known as yoga skirts. It’s certainly very stretchy and comfy, you probably could do a few yoga poses in this skirt!
Skirt – DIY / Top – Aerie (similar) / Nappy Bag – Handmade by my Mum / Shoes – DIY Lace-up Flats
Hello! I just got back from Japan and have realised that I need to start thinking about planning my handmade wardrobe and sewing clothes for Me Made May 2016. How is it already mid March? It feels like just the other day when I wrote my goals for 2016!
One of my goals for this year is to take part in Me Made May (aka #MMM16), a blogger-led social media event where you wear something you’ve made or upcycled every day for the month of May. Sounds like fun, right? Absolutely! And also a bit of a challenge, especially when you are breastfeeding and most of the things in your handmade wardrobe are smock dresses…
I’ve searched and bookmarked lots of wedding guest dresses recently because of my Japanese friend’s wedding in Guam. It’s not often we get to dress up, so when an opportunity comes along it’s so nice to wear a unique, handmade outfit you sewed yourself.
Here are 10 wedding guest dresses with links to sewing patterns for next time you have a special occasion to attend. 3 of these sewing patterns are free!
This baby bonnet/hat is fantastic knitting for beginners. You’ll get lots of practice of basic knitting stitches, like rib stitch and decreasing stitches. The beautiful bumpy pattern of the bonnet is created with simple knit and purl stitches .
It’s still summer in Australia, so I was probably the only crazy person knitting a wool hat for my baby in the heat of summer. We are, however, in Japan on vacation at the moment. Up here in the northern hemisphere it’s the middle of winter. We’ll be visiting my Obaachan (grandmother), who lives in far north Japan, where it’s extra snowy and extra freezing. Hence the need for a warm hat for Umi with straps to make it stay on her head – yay to bonnets!
This is the final post in the McCalls Patterns M6959 Dress A Sew-along. In Part 4, we’ll attach the skirt and finish off the dress with bias tape.
Other blog posts in the series:
Woohoo! We are on the last step to complete our McCalls Patterns M6959 dress – well done everyone!