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  • My First Pencil Skirt From My Block

    August 9, 2018 / 10 Comments

    Hand made Pencil skirt and Butterick 5526 Hi!  So, I’ve been talking about the skirt block class I’ve taken and I just want to wrap that up.  I gave all the info here so I wont go over that again, but I did want to talk about the process.  In the class, we went through a number of lessons over five weeks.  We learned how to make our own personal croqui by printing out a picture of ourselves and tracing over it.  We used these croquis to design our own skirts.  We could follow along with the instructor or design our own skirts.  The beauty of it is we drew…

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  • Fitting My Pencil Skirt and Simplicity 8601 Top- Fail

    June 12, 2018 / 8 Comments

    As a part of my work wear wardrobe,  I wanted  a pencil skirt.  I wanted this pencil skirt to be woven with minimal stretch and fit like a glove, easy, right?  Welp, in search of a skirt in RTW (ready to wear), I found tons of plus size pencil skirts, but none that were non stretch.  What I saw was scuba, neoprene and ponte.  I guess that’s a good way to get a fit, add spandex.  I don’t have anything against this, I actually own a few but I was looking for something more tailored. This is a basic pencil skirt, it’s very similar if not identical to this one (mine came…

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