Brown Tiered Skirt, Screenprinted Fern T-Shirt
Lately I have been working on updating some of the clothing I own so that I will actually wear it. (I will post one skirt soon) It reminded me of a skirt I posted on craftgrrl a while ago. I don't have the entry marked in my mem's for some reason, so I will just post the pictures here ~

I made most of this skirt a long time ago but made a mistake. I am used to working with thin calico fabrics, so when I gathered the tiers of the skirt (make from thicker reddish-brown corduroy) the tiers were so full they poofed out like a tutu. Not a bad look on its own, but the poofed out from mid-hip which is not pretty! Unfortunently I had sewn the skirt *really* well, topstitching over almost everything, so I was not anxious to seam rip it all out. It sat there at least a month but I finally pulled the tiers apart and gathered it less.


The tiers looked great, but I am not used to wearing short skirts, and since the bottom poofs out a little I could not feel the fabric against my legs. I did not want the back of the skirt to be caught on my purse or anything with out me noticing, so I added in a really gathered layer of thin black fabric underneath. It really fills up the space well, and adds enough black that I can wear a black top with the skirt (which I always do). The skirt has a pocket on the right side with a trim of a black-background fabric that has little colored circles all over. I re-created the circles along the left side of the skirt, outlining the circles with black thread. It ties in the back with a fabric drawstring.


In the same entry I posted a t-shirt that I had screenprinted with a fern design. There are three overlapped leaves going from darker to lighter as they get closer. I picked a bad shirt for this though, because I feel kind of dumpy in it and don't wear it often. I also do not have any pants that are a good color to wear with it, so I am not sure which is the real problem. But I am very happy to have the screen made up and can print it wherever I want!