I had a small piece of vintage rayon/cotton fabric- it has a nice drape and slightly 80's print and I love it. (after all, it has old-fashioned flowers with a background of orange splattered paint. They don't make fabrics like that anymore!) So I made it into a very simple skirt to wear this summer. It's turned out to be a very useful thing to have, something to wear when I can't be bothered searching through the wardrobe. Which is quite often.
I kept the dimensions of the first skirt and then made another, from a piece of batik-style cotton fabric. The skirts are about knee-length, and have a double-elastic waist and big side pockets. Here are some (very) rough directions in case you want to make one too:
Cut out two pieces of cotton fabric (a drapey kind works best, I think.) I used these measurements (i'm 'medium' sized): 22" long by 26" wide. Cut out pocket pieces, if desired. Apply pockets to sides of skirt (you might want to look at an existing pattern to find out how to do that and to get shapes of pockets.) Sew down the sides seams of the skirt and overlock/zig-zag the edges. Fold and press a casing for the elastic, thread it through and sew together the ends. Sew up casing. Hem skirt to desired length.
Okay, so perhaps those 'instructions' might be useful for their measurements only. Sorry about that.
Hope you had a great weekend- mine involved the beach, cake, coffee, family, friends and picking plums and apples in my Mum's small orchard. So good!
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