Starting Small

So I thought I'd get straight into it, and make one of These:

I found this on Pinterest, which linked to a fantastic DIY Tutorial.

So I set up the machine and off I went.

Steps:

This was a maternity top I wore when I was expecting Lucy.

 Cut into two large squares - this bigger the better because the fabric really pulls up when the waist band is put on. Hem up any raw edges.

Find the center and cut a circle. I found the easiest was to do this was to fold it in half and trace around a dinner plate.

Put the squares on top of each other, rotating the top one 90 degrees.. I think it's 90 degrees... I never was any good at the whole mathsy thing. Rotate one till it looks like this.

Carefully stitch on the waist band. The tutorial used a wide piece of colored elastic, but I didn't have any. Instead, I cut the arm off an old long sleeved t shirt, stitched it into a pouch and threaded the elastic I already had through. It's all about using what I've got and spending as little as possible! 

Trim it up and put it onto Three year old!

Yup. She didn't like it. Apparently "I only wanted to wear pink today"

Sigh. Still, skirt worked out pretty well!

Lessons learned today:

This is a fabu skirt that was cheap, cheerful and really easy. No major hassles today :)

An overlocker would have been awesome to tidy up the inside seams - I zig zagged them but the light cotton that the original top was made out of was pretty light and frayed pretty easily.

SO - for a first attempt at something completely new from something old, I'm calling this one a success :)