Happy Hippy Homemaker Strikes again!

I don't know what came over me.The lack of plot to my stories, and me flipping through the channels and landing on the Project Runway reruns. I got my idea for the best gift for my daughters birfday.

One year for Christmas my dear dear Capt. bought me a skirt. Not just ANY SKIRT...but a 1950 throw back Pink circle skirt n petticoat. I LOVE IT and wear it on a regular basis. My youngin need something just as special forced upon her, so I decided the thing to do was make her a Pink circle skirt as well. Seeing how I never sew, and rarely try(much like cooking) I figured...what the hell? I purchased the needed thread, material, and pattern. The pattern I used was one that I could find in the Halloween Costume section of the patten books. This pattern also required the complexity of a zipper. Since a 2 year old is hard enough to get dressed...a zipper was not something I was willing to mess around with so I modified the pattern- a little. This is how it was done!

2 Yards of material, folded in half and the necessary parts of the pattern...I used a combination of both skirts (a shorter and a longer) because size 2T was not available. Cutting 2 of the patters I pinned them together to measure to my daughter. I then cut the pattern section for the waist band. This was going to be where I was going to loop elastic through. I sewed up both sides of the skirt and secured the waist band to the top...looped the elastic through and VOI LA !!! Circle skirt! Seriously it took me all of two hours from begining to end! I am in the process of creating a petticoat of some sort. When I am finished ya'll will hear about it.

In the mean time take a look in awe ladies n ladies! This is what circle skirts in the family looks like!!