Wee Wander skirts

I think Sarah Jane’s Wee Wander fabric collection is my favourite among all the fabrics out there. Too bad I can’t wear them. And so, I made muppet skirts out of these lovely fabrics. First up is Elegance & Elephant‘s Spin Skirt using Summer night lights in twilight border print. I got the fabric from The Laughing house fabric shop but sadly it’s now sold out. The Spin skirt had very good instructions and was quite easy to make, I just made it a bit longer so I don’t need to crop those trees in the border print. I also didn’t add the front ties because she can’t tie them yet, and instead of using the skirt width for her size which is a 4/5, I just used the entire fabric’s 1 yard width to make it spinnier. I bought this pattern last year when I saw Teresa’s pretty version, I can’t seem to find the Spin skirt anymore in E&E’s online shop though. I just realized I haven’t blogged for 3 months so I’m quite out of practice, I’ll just leave you with lots of photos :).

She likes to play “sewing”

I also made her and her friend Tessa matching Lazy days skirt, again using Wee Wander fabric called Glow friends in twilight. As you can see, they loved it!

oliver + s lazy days skirts

Muppet’s into wearing skirts last week so I thought I’d make her some. I found this free Lazy days skirt pattern from oliver + s and I made 2 last weekend. I think I made the pink elephant skirt in 1 hour or less. The watermelon skirt took a bit more time because I ran out of ribbons, and I couldn’t decide if I should put ric racs instead but in the end I just used a bias tape to accentuate the bottom of the skirt. It’s a really good pattern for beginners like me, and the muppet wore them during the entire weekend so it really made me happy. She’s finally wearing something I made and she really loves them. I might make her some more soon.

I always thought it’s so cute when sewing bloggers use washi tape to display a kid’s clothing so I had to try it

But I think my washi tape’s a bit flimsy so this was what I got most of time while trying to take a photo of the pink skirt

I was planning to put 2 strips of the blue bias tape to the Watermelon skirt but I got lazy. Anyway, I didn’t use the recommended 3/4 wide elastic because I didn’t have one so I might replace the elastic one day and add that second strip of blue bias tape 🙂

Yup, that’s her bathing suit under her skirt. And she’s carrying a bucket too. We’re on our way here to the water park but as always the cat distracted her.

She wore it at the playground too