On Tuesday I was slummy again for my day off, but I didn't look slummy in my recently finished "muslin" of Simplicity 2655 (view E). I say muslin, because I was really just testing the pattern for size/etc, but wanted to be able to wear it. Since I wanted a skirt to ride on my hip, rather than much higher on my waist- I decided to make this pattern up in size 22, but since I sewed most of it on the serger, I could have sized down to 20, because this skirt certainly does have a low rise now. It's impossible to call the yoke a waistband yoke, since it falls a good inch below my belly button, and my natural waist is about 4 inches above my belly button! It's a hip-yoke, I guess.
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| Look close to see my pink top-stitching! You still can't see it because my camera has no capacity for detail! |
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| Lena Hoschek A/W 2011 |
This was the feel I was going for in putting my outfit together. I feel like I accomplished that in spite of my skirt not being a multi-textural dirndl. It's bulky, yet flirty- and the skirt did turn out super flirty.
I chose a pattern with a lot of gores specifically to break up the big print. I tried to make it look purposeful by adding contrast pink topstitching, which turned out quite subtle amongst the huge Flintstone flowers.
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| the fabric is almost sateen-like, so silky! |
I don't think that I'm wrong here, these flowers look totally Bedrockian to me. Even the name of the print "Dagmar" seems to have Modern-Stone Age connotations to it. Is it any wonder that my resulting skirt is something a teenage Pebbles would wear?
So there we have it. Now I have to go walk my Brontosaurus..
You look fantastic! The shape/print of the skirt is super flirty, and I love the Stone Age flowers! It's always great when a "muslin" is totally wearable, too :)
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