Velvet Skirt
Samettihame
Why a velvet skirt?
As everyone who is familiar with me knows, I am not a skirt or dress person. I prefer jeans, and just do not feel comfortable wearing a skirt. Might be just lack of practice though... However I own a pair of Nemonic boots (that I call elven boots or "haltiasaappaat" in Finnish :) ), that definitely would look better with a skirt. I also happened to find this really pretty velvet from Eurokangas and decided I'd make my second skirt ever (the first one I made in 2007 and I wore it to a friend's wedding).
Nemonic elven boots, "haltiasaappaat".
The pattern I used is a simple A-line skirt (A-linjainen hame) from Joka tyypin kaavakirja. Two pieces, back and front with a third piece on the waist. I wanted to add a little something to my skirt to make it less plain. Since my new sewing machine (finishing the Master's Thesis/graduation present from my mother) had these embroidering patterns, I also wanted to test them out.
Testing a few embroidering patterns on Husqvarna Emerald 183
They look rather nice, but I also found an embroidered leaf patch I had bought earlier simply because I liked it. I used the machine embroidering on two back pockets and the leaf I added to a single front pocket.
Back pocket (the other one is mirror image) and front pocket.
Finished skirt from the front.
Finished skirt from the back.
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