 you guys we've got another so together pattern voted on chosen a winner and this month for april we all chose we were all voting between skirts and it was an interesting time putting together the four options that we had but ultimately everyone voted on the blue dot patterns no zip skirt this pattern is freaking genius because of the way that you get in and out of it there's literally no zipper um it kind of if you've made vintage skirts before this will be familiar to you but if you haven't you're gonna be like mind blown but it it kind of combines i don't know how to explain it i was gonna say it kind of combines a wrap but that's misleading there's a button closure you open the buttons and the whole skirt on the side kind of comes not the whole thing but a lot of this curt comes undone and that's how you get in and out of it and then it falls back together and you button it back and that's how it's really really really so so so cool so you have what looks like a traditional a-line skirt without a single zipper in sight i love this pattern so much and so happy that you guys chose it so let's take a deeper dive into the pattern let's talk about fabrics let's talk about fit let's talk about all of that stuff like we usually do okay so it says this clever no zip entry and easy to sew a line skirt has a fitted waist slash pockets and button and hook and i closure it comes in three links and is a great project for beginners or someone looking for a quick wardrobe edition um it has your pattern info um fabric requirements medium and bottom weight fabrics like denim twill corduroy suiting satin poplin faux suede and linen here are your fabric requirements and then your notions you just need some buttons hook and eyes some interfacing and contrasted for top stitching if you were going to choose that okay so here is some faux toes it's going to zoom in as i go over it okay so you can kind of get an idea of the design there on the right hand side with the um line drawings center front seam slash pockets there's the button closure and a nice big like one and a half inch waistband possibly sits at your true hip or true waist i love that the sizing and she has finished garment measurements here for the waist and hip body measurements and inches and then body measurements in centimeters so your waist the finish is 27 up to 41 inches the hip is 42 up to 56 and that's finished that's including all of the wearing and design ease here's a cutie little photo of it done in denim you can see there with the contrast top stitching how nice that looks you do have three links i think this one is the middle link then you have this little side view from suede so nice this is her wearing the one that the first picture that was on the dress form that's got to be the longer length and i feel like that's got to be like a cotton wall maybe maybe a poplin there are a lot of really really cute versions of this on instagram as well so if you're looking for more photos go check those out so i just recently reorganized all my fabric if you're following me on instagram you'll see that i'm doing like 30 day challenge which we're about halfway through so fabric was last week so i've got it all nice and organized by weight so these are my heavy-ish weight wovens and i thought this would be a good place for us to start to find some appropriate fabrics for this pattern so first up i have something kind of like denim but doesn't look like denim this is actually a twill weave it is a pottery barn sheet that i got from goodwill and you know a lot of the photos that we saw of the garment i think she must have released this in the fall so they're a little bit like you know cooler weather she's wearing them with tights they're you know fall fabrics denim and suede this is a great way to do twill but in like a springy kind of version right can you not see a cute little skirt out of this in addition to twill weave slash denim we've got a suede in this really beautiful color suede's come in all kinds of different colors this one's kind of like a ten-cell twill so it is heavier like suede but it will have a little bit of drape to it as in addition to that so that could be a fun like it'll fall a little bit closer to the body rather than stick straight out a line i have all my denims down here which are good options um i think is something else a little bit unique i mean we have this print don't worry you guys i'm not going to mess up the fabrics but we have a curtain that looks like this that could be really fun for the spring um this is i don't know you there's a little bit of texture on it can you see so in a way it's kind of like i don't know what that is i feel like i've seen it before but the name is not coming to me but the colors are really pretty and i think when you cut it all up to make it into a skirt maybe it won't look like a curtain anymore that's always my concern whenever i'm making things um out of curtain fabric more denim but these are getting a little bit lightweight for this up here so yeah i would um here's a corduroy in black corduroy comes in a million different colors um more sheets more of the same um you could do if we went into my little knit section which is up here way up there so these are my heavyweight knits so you could do a ponty um because ponty is it behaves a lot like a woven even though it is technically a knit so you could do like a heavyweight ponty that would also be nice um i've even got this ponty that looks like denim that could be cool do you remember the jeggings that i made gosh 2020 maybe spring 2020 um so yeah a lot of fun options how about something like this i got this from goodwill too with the little golf i mean you could wear that to like a golfing event to go golfing if you golf in skirts um it's a little bit specifics and i don't really golf but you know it could be fun if you hang out at the country club a lot got any country club lifers out there the fabric itself though is yeah i think it's just like an upholstery weight woven i guess this technically would be a jacquard right if we can see the wrong side i think that's how that works um so yeah i don't know just a lot of fun stuff so shop your stash you're looking for the sort of heavier weight definitely structured um weightier fabrics that are in your stash um if you're going to go shopping the world is your oyster with this like she listed in the um in the listing you can do twill denim same thing um you can do suede uh you could do leather the other side of suede you could do um corduroy you could do heavier weight cottons i mean it's a it's pretty basic a line skirt the interesting thing about it is how you get in and out of it without a zipper so the construction of it is going to be a lot of fun um so try not to overthink the fabric part of it too too much okay and finally let's talk a little bit about fit you don't actually see a photo of the or line drawing or photo of the back of the skirt um i already own this pattern so i can see the instructions and they have the back so the back is just a solid waistband and a center back seam and everything else is just an a-line skirt so when it comes to fitting this i really encourage you guys to start with your waist even if your waist is smaller if you repair like me start with a waist all of these um a-line skirts and things with waistbands start the fitting starts from the waist no matter what's happening below it so even make a mock-up of that waistband and just button it make sure it's comfortable sit down stand up you know wear it around and make sure that it is going to be a good fitting waistband then make the body of the skirt using the hip measurement if that's larger the same small or whatever it is and then as you come up into the waistband then start nipping and tucking and working out the top of that um skirt portion to fit into the waist and that doesn't necessarily mean grading i'm i'm having a love hate relationship with grading right now part of me feels like grading is just me being lazy and not actually wanting to go through the steps of getting it to fit um part of me feels like it's very easy and approachable so of course we should be grading but i want to encourage you because we have two side seams and a center front and a center back seam treat those as if they were darts so imagine if you're you make the hip the skirt from the hip right and from the hip measurement and your skirt's upper raw edge is four inches larger than what your waistband ends up being you have eight seam allowances all the way around to pinch in and nip and tuck and plus since the back is so plain you could a million percent add some back darts if you wanted to i don't think that that would look weird or odd at all so if you wanted to take in each of the um vertical seams by like a quarter of an inch not even that much that's going to get you half an inch per seam so that's two inches all the way around and then you can make up the other two inches by adding in little darts in the back either one set or two sets completely up to you and four inches is a pretty extreme example anyways so i am going to challenge myself to not just grade this skirt from waist to hip i don't think that that ends up being super flattering um and because it is sort of a basic design and and really the superstar here is the construction really challenged myself to kind of go in on some proper fitting techniques instead of taking the easy way out but you do you if you want to grade by all means great away um but so yeah so that's what i am going to be doing she has also which is really interesting in the like instruction booklet what the ease is at the waist what the ease is at the hip so there's no guessing game there so when you go to do your fast fit worksheet it's pretty much all the math is already done for you and you're just analyzing intended fit and finished garment measurements and that's it so um so yeah i'm really excited to make this one i think it's going to be really cute um this this could we're trying skirts we're really giving skirts a real chance here i have like three or four on the docket so if after this little whirlwind of skirt sewing i still find myself not loving them for one reason or another i think we'll know and that's going to be okay if skirts aren't my thing we're going to be just fine um but we'll see this one i'm really really excited about this one i'm just as excited about as that vogue wrap one and that one i'm super excited about so shop your stash go get the pattern um post it whenever it's done there's no deadline um just use sew together 22 hashtag tag me so i can see it and you're good that's all we're trying to do here just something fun no stress nothing else nothing new to worry about we got plenty to worry about but hopefully you're excited about this pattern you want to move it to the top of your two sew list um it is for me so but that is going to do it for me today i have linked to last month's sew together reveal um if you want to watch that if you missed how that pattern came together um so click the bottom right corner of your screen that'll take you right to that video otherwise i will see you all very soon thanks for watching bye