My new skirt

[frualeydis]

The lining actually isn't finished. Since it wasn't pleated like the skirt it turned out too tight. I've cut off everything except 8 centimetres of it and will add a gathered piece tomorrow. Now Maja is being extremely difficult.

Comments

[systemgoddess.livejournal.com]

Oh how cute! I like it!

[dorinda2212.livejournal.com]

Ooh, how adorable!

[pinkrouge.livejournal.com]

Very cute! Just in time for Robbie Burns Day (on the 25th)

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Robbie Burns day?

Eva

[pinkrouge.livejournal.com]

Famousest Scottish poet from the 18th century, he's best known to the rest of the western world for penning "Auld Lang Syne". Referred to as the "Scottish Bard".

http://www.robertburns.org/

[pinkrouge.livejournal.com]

Oops, and Jan. 25th is his birthday, thus Robbie Burns day now. :)

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I do know who Robert Burns is, but I didn't know he was called Robbie or htat he had a day.
Anyway, a good reason to wear the skirt although my association is more to the punk scene.

Eva

[ginger-dragon.livejournal.com]

It's very cute! I have a Scottish friend who used to live in Riga, and she and other Scots there, usually did something for Burns day. I wonder what she'll do now that she is in Khabul...

*hugs*

[flummoxicated.livejournal.com]

CUTE!

[babylon-goo.livejournal.com]

fabulous!

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think it's a little limp, but when the lining gets a gathered skirt it will help it stand out a little. It moves very nicely though, which it should, there's 2,8 metres of skirt width.

Eva

[de-ravenne.livejournal.com]

Very cute, you have very nice legs too!

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Erh, thanks, I think they look big and clumsy in this picture, but mostly I like them.

Eva

[la-couteriere.livejournal.com]

oh my gosh, that skirt is the cutest thing ever! I love it!

[missrebeckah.livejournal.com]

you MADE that??? I'm gonna hire you as my seamstress. woa, you're good.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

It is really very simple. It's a rectangular piece, 3 meters long before pleating (which is done with a wet towel and a hot iron)that is sewn to a yoke modelled after a skirt I already had. The only tricky part is to put in the zipper.

Eva, who says than you to everybody for the nice words.

[missrebeckah.livejournal.com]

well... you make it sound easy. ;)

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

It's a thin-to-medium weight wool blend. And the lining, I actually gave up on it and decided to have it without lining. I will have to wear a slip under it so it doesn't get caught on my tights.
I will check on the Heyer novels, since I only have read them in swedish I can't remember their real titles and Maja stops me from going anywhere right now.
Except "The grand Sophy" which is one of my favourites.

Eva

Georgette Heyer

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Yes they do, I want to read them in english too, but teh old-fashioned swedish is kind of cute too and I've bought all of them at flea-markets so there wasn't much choice.

Eva

[aclisto.livejournal.com]

Are you kidding me? That is so cute I could scream! And you've got such cute legs...sigh....