Beautiful buttons

As promised, more skirt pictures. I made two reversible skirts. The first one was ultra trial and error. I had a little run in with the overlocker which resulted in one rather ummm shapely side...
The patterned fabric looks v Marimekko I think but it was a Spotty special - $1/m. The other side is wool flannel, nice and warm for winter. The skirt has a hole in the middle that you step into so when the skirt is on you see a triangle of the alternate fabric.
It's all finished except for the daunting task of sewing the buttons on. I went to Buttonmania and bought some fab buttons. The ladies at that shop are so incredibly nice and helpful plus they have lots of patience with people (ok, me) who come into their shop with a very wriggly little boy who, quite frankly, is not the least bit interested in skirts or buttons. Infact, he'd probably rather eat the buttons.

The second skirt is the one that I posted about a week or so ago. It is Amy Butler fabric with black wool suiting on the reverse. This one is better made. The waistband is really good (if I say so myself!) and I just love the fabric. The buttons look better in real life, this pic make the green buttons look more green than they really are and it makes the other ones look quite yellow rather than limey green.

Now I just need to pluck up the courage and get my sewing machine to magically create 4 button holes for me.

Finally...pictures of my sewing

I've been beavering away at making skirts. I have to go back to work next week :-( and thought that I'll feel better about it if I'm wearing something nice. At work, I will not be used as a human serviette which is apparently what Herb thinks that I am. Therefore, I can wear nice clothes. A trip to Patchwork on Central Park scored me some lovely Amy Butler heavy weight fabric and using a bit of nouse and a lot of trial and error, I decided to make a reversible skirt. No pattern involved, just a lot of holding the fabric up to myself and deciding to cut here and there...

I did a few web searches and found some good skirt tutorial guidance. I meshed all that knowledge into my head, and forged on. First up - layed the fabric out, lined it up, drew my lines and cut with my trusty sewing scissors. You probably can't tell in this pic but my cutting was (ahem, get ready for some boasting) perfect. Yes it was. Both pieces matched exactly.

Then I got excited cause I thought I had lots of lovely left over fabric. But I decided to insert a waistband thanks to Distressed for the tutorial.

Next up - overlocking. Oh what fun it is to overlock and can I just state for the record: Overlocking beats zig zag any day of the week.

I'll post more pics of the progress tomorrow but thought I should finish with some images of the iron and my great sewing scissors. No project is complete unless you have some type of craft injury. I burnt myself with the iron and actually snipped my finger with the scissors. Must of been a reallllly good craft day!