Denim wrap skirt

A plain title. A fairly plain skirt but a long wanted one. Ha, both long and wanted! A 16 gore wrap skirt in lightweight denim. I’ve made two of these before and love the style. One in three alternating colours of pinwale cord and one in chocolate brown cotton. I’ve been wanting a denim version for ages. Done. Ties stolen from the multicoloured big skirt, an extra advantage of detachable ties. That hemline looks more interesting on the hanger than in wearing. A substantial derriere needs extra length to get a level hem, ha!

I managed one progress shot and one only. I have fun coming up with new stitching designs for jeans pockets. This isn’t trousers, let alone jeans but it is denim. Lens shapes are easy to sew, so I’ve been thinking of trying for an eye design. Last time I tried to draw one it wouldn’t work. This time I sat down and had a workable design in a couple of tries, hurrah.

Less happily, I had to place the back pockets higher than ideal for pocket function so they would not interfere too much with the hang of the skirt. Oh well. I shall have to make eye pockets for some other garment.

This is going to be a really short blog post. I’m feeling the garment will be well used and much worn though.

and a disappointing back view. Hard to get the photo alone and the pockets don’t show up at all. Oh well.

Sunny pocketses

A new day, a new skirt 🙂

I wanted a new winter skirt. Plain coloured, dark, washable, comfy, with goodly large pockets.  I had a couple of metres of an unusual dark corduroy. Black base fabric. I struggle to tell whether the pile is a different colour or whether that colour is just printed over plain black cord. So dark, but with quite a sheen in greyish chocolatey colours.

I cut a simple A-line four panel skirt. Of course one needs to make the pockets first. I have a habit these days of doing patch pockets both front and back. If I ever settle on a pattern I’m happy with I might actually make proper jeans front pockets. Anyway, patch pockets on anything vaguely jean like beg for decorative stitching. I have such fun with pocket decoration. I find that gentle curves and pointed shapes are both easy to sew, while tight curves are hard to do well. What meets those restrictions, is something I haven’t done yet and appeals? I thought I’d try a rising sun motif. Et voila!

I went with a zip closure plus elastic waistband. Comfy and practical.

I couldn’t think of an appealing way to set it up for a picture by itself. They don’t make skirt hangers for larger sizes and folding the waistband like they do in the shops doesn’t make for honest display. So here it is draped on a little sofa.

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It turned out more closely fitted in the hip than I had planned but the effect is nice. I might make a looser version out of lighter weight cloth later.

Denim 8 Gore Skirt

On my list was a short A-line denim skirt. Yesterday I cut it out and made it’s set of pockets.

Today I put the skirt together.

I had fun using a bright scrap to make the zip placket

I’m not entirely happy with how it sits. It might have been a mistake to use this very thin fabric. It might work better in proper traditional denim. This will be nice and light for travelling though.

I cut 8 identical gores. Then pinned it in to fit me, and trimmed it back at waist and hem to level it. I’m finding I enjoy this approach. It’s way less frustrating than having 4 different pattern pieces that one can get confused and probably have to adjust later on anyway.