Burda Style For people who sew

Description

I am in desperate need of some new winter clothes at the moment, so it was definitely time to get a wriggle on and make something.

I found this great corduroy with birds all over at Spotlight. I love how bright and quirky it is – definitely two qualities that are lacking in winter clothes in stores. I don’t understand why all they stock is black and grey – isn’t winter dreary enough? Give me something colourful any day!

The pattern is the straight skirt variation of Simplicity 4236. I had some issues with this one – despite supposedly being big enough according to the measurements on the pattern, it was much too tight around my hips even with a very tiny seam. Since I’d already cut the fabric, I ended up cutting some tapered insert sections to put in the side seams. It seems to have worked out just fine. I did have to sacrifice the waistband facing to get these inserts out of my smallish piece of fabric, so I just used some pink bias binding I had on hand to finish the waist.

Photos, as usual, by pambox

Difficulty

Novice

Categories

Season

Fall, Winter

For

Women

Garment Type

Skirt

Style

Casual

Material

Corduroy