Wool Wrap Miniskirt

 

This is the second version of this skirt, and I am afraid it is not to be the last. 

I got this wool from Stone Fabrics. It is quite expensive, but I only bought 50 cm and it was enough.

The pattern is mine, devived from the long skirt I made, a success in my wardrobe. The wrap gives this skirt the perfect amount of ease to comfortably walk and sit, and still be around my contours. 

I took some fullness off the side seams, after I saw it was too wide at the bottom.

I lined the skirt with silk from HongKong, stitching it around the sides and the top of the skirt, folding it over, and topstitching it. I sew the bottom hem by hand and the lining to the hem allowance.

I love it, the colour and hang are perfect.

A Skirt For My Hasbeens!

Hello!












Has it ever happened to you that you believe in the utter need of possessing some pair of shoes, as if they were ABSOLUTELY necessary in your wardrobe (the more expensive, the more necessary they are) and when you get them, you don't know what to wear them with???






















I am kind of familiar with the experience! And that is precisely the case with my winter Swedish Hasbeens (it also happened to me in the summer). I saw them online, and they were a PRIORITY in my life. At least I found them cheaper in the US, even if that meant involving my friend living there to receive them, try them on, show them to me via Skype, and send them to me. But they were more the 50% cheaper! I was extasic when I got them for Christmas.
Then I could only wear them with one dress (or with jeans and black), so I started to look for clothes to go with them, and I found this light maroon wool, perfect for them.














I used my long skirt pattern, making it shorter and dividing it in two pieces. Then, I added some pleats in the center front and back to give it  more moevement and grace. I applied fusible interfacing in the upper parts and lined all of it. 
It matches my shoes to perfection!

The skirt has a marked fold after sitting all day at school with it. And being pure wool, I cannot wash it...

Aren't they beautiful??? I am in LOVE with this shoes, man!