Wear Test: Fail

But With Two Happy Endings

I made myself a new black skirt about a month ago, loved the idea and pretty much liked the style up until the moment I tried it on.  It fit, the workmanship was nice, but for some reason it wasn't working for me.  I'm not sure what it was about it, but I just did not connect with the skirt for some reason.  Now, I know you think that's a bit insane, connecting with your clothes and all, but this piece just did not strike me as right.  If I'm going to have something in my wardrobe and go to the trouble of making it, I should love it, not be all "meh" about it.  So, it was a fail for me.

Fortunately, I have a daughter who now about my size and she gets first pick of any clothing that I'm getting rid of.  She was delighted to have the skirt.  She's always needing black skirts for choir, handbells and flute performances, so I was thrilled to give to her.

That left me still needing a black skirt to replace skirts I was getting rid of.  I pulled out Vogue 2925, now out of print, I think.  I've made every piece in this wardrobe and have made the skirt twice, once in black with the matching jacket and once in brown, for which I intended to make the matching jacket but it didn't happen.  Now that I'm not teaching high school, I don't need the suits and may or may not ever make the jacket!  Anyway . . . . I've made the skirt for the third time, again in black.  This skirt is actually a circle skirt, but is nice because it is fitted through the waist and hip and then flares out.

I made this one, the easy way without a lining, a very narrow hem (serged and turned once), and with a petersham waist facing.  I had some real petersham that I had been saving for a project and this turned out to be it.  The fabric isn't anything exciting, just some poly blend suiting, but I know that this fabric will wear like iron and withstand the abuse of being washed and dried at home.  I expect this skirt to last as bit longer than the last black one, as I know when I was teaching I wore the skirt at least once a week. 

So, although we had a fail, we also have two happy endings.  My daughter has a new skirt and so do I!

Parting Shot:  Deceptively Cute.  Isn't he so cute?!?  Yes, of course, he's sleeping.  Most you know by now that he can act like toddler and can has a habit of chewing up anything plastic.  I prefer to think of him sleeping like this, though!