{"id":1956,"date":"2011-11-22T16:59:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T21:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/?p=1956"},"modified":"2011-11-22T17:01:42","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T22:01:42","slug":"a-quick-skirt-for-elizabeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/?p=1956","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Skirt for Elizabeth"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been sick this past week.<\/p>\n

Hack up a lung with the cold without end, comatose with a Nyquil drip, sporting ratty pajamas with no thought for a shower sick. \u00a0\u00a0Tis the season and all that. \u00a0DH gave it to me and now David is lying on the sofa, laid low with the same nefarious bug just as I start to recover.<\/p>\n

But before my lost weekend, I did manage to whip up this cute little skirt for our friend, Elizabeth, age 4, who has a ‘thing’ for owls. I don’t generally make clothes for random friends but when I saw this cute owl print a couple of weeks ago, I knew she would love it. \u00a0Ooh, did she ever!\ufeff<\/p>\n

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The pattern is “Dancer<\/a>“, another one of my friend Laura’s excellent e-patterns. The fit is nice and the sewn in shorts \u00a0mean the climbing bar holds no more threats \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I paired the retro print with a simple brown polka dot for the underskirt and used some bright pink print from my stash for the waist tie and binding.<\/p>\n

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I made a few invisible changes because I prefer a different method of binding than Laura recommended and I did the belt loops a little differently, too, inserting them into the waistband but otherwise, it’s identical to the pattern.<\/p>\n

A nice, easy sewing project that I finished up in a morning. \u00a0Elizabeth loved it (I will try and get a picture of her wearing it – the whole being sick thing kind of impeded me!). My only regret is that her poor mother is going to be doing a lot of laundry in the coming weeks. \u00a0Her daughter’s already announced her intentions of wearing it to school every day. \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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