My daughter, Miss P, fell in love with the Woodland Tails fabric by Sherri Berry for Riley Blake Designs as soon as I pulled it out of the package. She said she wanted a skirt out of it. Sure! Since this issue of Fat Quarterly is all about sewing with and for children I thought I'd let her make the skirt. She is six and has had a little bit of sewing practice. With this project she mastered quarter inch seams and machine hemming.First I used the rotary cutter to make three 19" vertical strips of different widths from the print fabric (making sure that those little animals were right side up!). Then we chose two coordinating solids and some rick rack for accent. We cut strips of the solid fabric that were the same height as the print but also different widths. The total width of the 9 strips was about 50 inches for our skirt.
She sewed theses together to build a piece of fabric that was 19 inches high by about 45 inches wide.I helped by sewing the rick rack to the edge of the fabric.
My daughter then sewed the two fabrics together enclosing the rick rack in the seam.
She then turned down the top a quarter inch and then turned another 3/4 inch (I helped with pinning) and stitched the folds down almost all the way around to create a casing for the elastic. After pulling the elastic through and pinning it together at the appropriate tightness, she sewed up the elastic and then the last couple inches of the casing. Along the bottom, she finished with a double fold (about 3/8 inch) machine stitched hem. This length was perfect for her.She is THRILLED with her skirt and can't wait to wear it to school.
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