Monday, April 2, 2012

I blog-finished a skirt

Things you need to know:

Simplicity pattern

Prints charming fabric

Fully lined with cotton voile

it fits !

skirt 

Things you don’t need to know but I’ll tell you anyway:

I lost the invisible zipper twice ! (It was found in the garden at one point)

The inserted zipper is in fact, more like a hard to see zipper than actually invisible

The binding is just pinned on

The lining is not completely sewn in to the zip yet

None of the dots match up and I am choosing not to care

 

skirtback

I do not appear to be the same size as my mannequin

39 comments:

  1. Well of course you lost it. It is an invisible zipper.

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  2. Very cute! I'm hoping to be not the size of my mannequin too. Love the binding

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  3. Love it!!!
    I appear to have that very same mannequin problem.

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  4. I would have loved to see you hunting for that invisible zip, Jod. Great skirt.

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  5. Love it. Looks like something out of a Boden catalog. I am going to have to look this pattern up!

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  6. Are any of us? Same size as our mannequin, I mean.

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  7. I never thought dots were supposed to match. It gives the person behind you something interesting to think about. (What happened to the other half of that dot?)

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  8. See, your 'blog-finished' is my 'finished-finished'. Whoever heard of matching-up dots?

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  9. I love, love, love the pattern and it's color. Bravo!

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  10. Oh you made me laugh, especially the last photo. Your great and your skirt is fabulous, I llove it!

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  11. Looks great, you're one up on me the furthest I've gotten with a skirt is taking my measurements1

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  12. Do you suppose there is a design fault with mannequins? I have the same problem. Perhaps we caould launch a class action?

    DO love your skirt - perfect for Autumn :)

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  13. Great post! I love reading your blog, it always makes me smile. The skirt looks great!!

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  14. Tee Hee!! I've been wondering how one goes about padding out a mannequin to match one's body without it looking like a podgy mess (or is the last bit just me)?!?

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  15. Love your work and the fact that your slim manniquin appears to have rather glam under garments on!

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  16. OOhh. Now I want one! Really spiffy, pins still in or not. I am not the same size as my mannequin either--or I wouldn't be if I actually had mannequin, I'm sure!

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  17. Very impressive and Finn has been having some fun.

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  18. he. someone offered me a mannequin once in a size 8....your kidding me right?

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  19. You really make me laugh! The skirt looks fantastic!

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  20. Cute skirt, Jodie! Those pesky zippers. Let me assure you, you are not the first person to lose an invisible zipper. Possibly they are more invisible before they are inserted than after?

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  21. see I'd spend days trying to get the spots to match and end up with no skirt, your way is better.

    your mannequin doesn't eat enough

    hard to see - love it!

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  22. Jodie - that is a very cool skirt - you are already on a roll!

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  23. Thought you were looking very trim there - I've been hunting a M O U S E ! eeeeek!!!

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  24. Well done - knew you would manage a skirt easy peasy!

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  25. But it's spots! That fixes everything. ;)

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  26. Oh loving the spots! I choose to ignore most "features" in my garment sewing. Perhaps that's why I don't seem to end up wearing many of them more than once. hmmmmm

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  27. I'd call that a great start to the holidays. You need to feed that mannequin.

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  28. Do any of us actually fit our manequins? I have two and neither are me....:)

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  29. "of course you lost it" I love that line.
    You are too honest for your own good but its no good, I am still impressed :-)

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  30. Yeah, I'm not the same size as the mannequin in my head either. It sucks! (Love that cute polkie skirt though!)

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  31. I've allegedly got a plus sized mannequin and she is still smaller than me!

    Bitch!

    Love your skirt. Just gorgeous!

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  32. Bahaha! Blog-finished! I love it. In that case I blog-cleaned my house this weekend.

    Love the skirt, btw. And just having a lining and a hard to see zipper is two steps up on my skirts. :D

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  33. Your mannequin needs a twinky intervention!! Cheers to the girls who've got something to grab a hold of.

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  34. It is excellent! I bought fabric for a skirt 18+ months ago, and it is still sitting in the cupboard. And a hard to see zipper is fine, right? Who's looking?

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  35. I adore Trashs comment! Love your spots too! well done Jodie!

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  36. My sister bought a mannequin... called in her measurements and went and picked up. Now she won't sew for herself because she can't believe she's the same size (read.. as large) as the mannequin. too funny....

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Hellloooooo !!!!