Skirt Week!

I made four skirts last week! Gosh, I feel productive and clever.

Well, four and a half, but I'm not counting the one that's in the UFO pile. Three of those four are Burda 8280, two short ones and long one. I also made an above-the-knee blue twill with lime green rickrack in the panel seams... self-drafted. The trimmed seams was an impromptu decision, but turned out wonderfully.

Am eager to show them all off, but there is not one single decent place inside this house to take an indoor photo except one corner of the front hall and then only on a bright day. I'm waiting for a break from gloomy, rainy weather (we get a lot of that in Hilo). The few times the sun has come out, hubbie hasn't been around to take snaps. Tried to take some myself but the only full-length mirror is the closet doors in the bedroom, and the large picture window on the opposite wall means it just doesn't work. Which explains why I so often post snaps of my creations on a hanger rather than on me.

I did wear the Amy Butler "mod" print skirt one afternoon... only to WalMart, a less than exciting debut, but it's as comfortable to wear as I'd hoped, and is sure to become a much-worn favorite. One of these days the sun will come out and I'll corral DH to snap some pics as I model new creations.

Until then I'm taking a break from sewing. I'm off to the Left Coast Crime writer's conference (held right here on the Big Island this year, hurray!) in Waikoloa next weekend, and have some prep to do for that (now that I've cranked out a few new things to wear). Promise I'll post some pics when I've got 'em. And I'm gonna start posting to Pattern Review as well when I have some decent photos.

When I get back from the conference I've got some UFOs to finish up, and some Kaffe Fasset fabric to get creative with. There's probably at least one more Burda skirt in the stash, and I've been eyeing the Amy Butler "Anna" Tunic pattern in the dress length. This whole "sew some clothes" thing was sparked by the realization, over a year ago, that my favorite tank dresses for around-the-house wear on hot summer days were wearing out and I had nothing to replace them. Here we are on the verge of warmer weather again, and I've made a lot of things but not the garments I still need the most. That's gonna be the project goal for post-conference spring sewing.

And then I'll have to clean up the sewing room, which doubles as our guest room. My parents are arriving for a visit on April 2, so I've gotta clear the mess out of the way and set it up nice and pretty for them. The more fabric I use up this month, the less I have to put away...