Silks And Satins

Isn’t this the most gorgeous piece of cloth?

It is a lovely deep green fabric, machine-embroidered with silks in random pastel shades. It was in a bag of bits which my blogfriend Sandie gave me last year – and I have kept intending to find a use for it. So I put it on my list

Then a friend came to church last week in a skirt, which she had made herself, from beautiful embroidered fabric and I thought Aha! I remembered this skirt I made six years ago

This was using some cotton fabric I bought in London, and I cut the pattern from an old M&S skirt.

I bound the hem with purple satin bias binding from Button Boutique. This is one of my favourite summer skirts – the colours match so many different tee shirts!

So I made another one…

Same pattern, same format. Two pieces cut on the bias, sewed up at the sides,  no waistband- just a length of wide elastic stitched round the top and then folded over.  And the bottom edge hemmed with satin binding from BB again.

It is a warmer weight and will be a good skirt for the Spring. Thank you Sandie! Another project completed, and another length of cloth rescued from the Great Stash and repurposed!