sew | maxi skirt

A few months ago, my good friend, Chelsie, was wearing and adorable grey and black leopard-print maxi skirt. Obviously, I had to inquire as to where she got it. She told me Wet Seal, and that they have a lot more options - zebra, black, white and grey, chevron...

GREY AND WHITE?! CHEVRON?!

I love grey and white. I love chevron.

VIA. You go, Charlie Brown.

So the next weekend, I happened to be at the mall in Grand Forks, and I decided I'd go to Wet Seal there to check out their selection of maxi skirts. There they were, just beyond the doors of the store. Chels was right - there WERE a lot of options. A couple racks of em. Another girl was on one end of the racks, so I started browsing on the opposite end. I found the grey and white striped one and started hunting for a large, towards the back of the rack. Ya know, cause I figured they'd all be organized by size.

Which they weren't.

And, they were packed tightly in there, so I was taking them off the rack to check the sizes on the tags. Pretty soon, I could feel this presence unusually close to me, and all the sudden, the girl from the other end of the rack starts digging for the same skirt as me.

Okay, that's fine.

I asked her, "What size are you looking for? I have a medium and a small here."

"Oh, I need a large."

Of course you do.

So, I stood back and let her finish hunting. Guess what? Beeyotch walked away with the last large size.

Ugh. I replaced the skirts on the rack and left the store feeling kind of defeated.

Oh well, who needs Wet Seal anyways? Their return policy sucks.

And, on top of that...sure they had grey and white striped maxis. Sure they had chevron maxis. But did they have grey and white chevron maxis?! NO MA'AM THEY DIDN'T.

But, could I make one of my own? Oh yes, I could! And I did! (Really, this was a win-win for me. Because my new rule is to not buy something unless I am ABSOLUTELY IN LOVE with it.)

Here's what I used:

 

Again, thanks to the help of Granny, I was able to make this skirt by following this tutorial.

I bought my fabric here.

Thread

Sewing machine

Pinking shears

Scissors

Lots more of Granny's patience - for example, when I accidentally sewed 3 layers of fabric together. Whoopsie.

A seam ripper to fix the above incident (ha)

Brown gladiator sandals (not really shown) / Maurices
Denim shirt / Target
Silver hoop earrings / Maurices
(I forgot to put my belt on for the picture. Oops.)

And I want to make, oh, 4 or more of them, perhaps with this fabric, this fabric, this fabric, or this fabric.

I love maxi skirts. They're perfect for when you want to go just one more day without shaving.

And, they're comfortable for when you go to church a bit hungover.

:)

Love,

Kalli

P.S. Just a few thoughts on this project...
- The skirt is actually going to have to be taken in a bit. I'm not sure if it has something to do with the adding 3 inches to the waist or Granny and I measuring wrong. We'll have to test it out on the next one!