After my precious linen Christmas blouse, I had a small but non-zero amount of fabric left. Not enough for another garment… but far too much to consign to the scraps bin. It was, however, just enough to make a generous amount of bias tape. And, I realized, it coordinated very well with the fabric I used for this skirt last winter.
Without thinking about it too much, I cut out a simple Swiss waist using my French Meadows draft as a starting place. My pink linen became the binding, as well as some rouleau for decoration. It might have taken forever, except that I wound up spending five or six hours with Syo in the ER after a medical scare that turned out to be probably nothing. Which was grueling, but I got a lot of hand-stitching done, so I was probably less frustrated at the end of the night than she was.
So that was fun. Although I kind of wish the shape was a bit more, well, shapely. But that’s what I get for only wanting a three piece pattern.
I liked the rouleau technique enough that I decided to apply it to the skirt, loosely inspired by trimmings I’ve seen in catalogue pictures.
Again, it took some time but not nearly as much as I would’ve thought. I’ve actually thought about doing something like this ever since I first finished the skirt, though I was thinking more black or darker purple. But in the end I really like the subtlety of the pink-on-purple, although it is a bit hard to photograph.
The result is almost a capsule wardrobe, which I’m enjoying very much. I still have some scraps of the light purple fabric, maybe enough for a little vest even…
Tanit-Isis Sews 