I am so much looking forward to it all, that I am already in the middle of preparing for it. Yesterday I sewed myself my "Ready to Rock-Rock" - (sorry, the pun is only funny for anyone who can speak German. "Rock" is the German word for "skirt").
Right, I admit, it's not new. It is old. It is made from an old pair of denims of mine that have been sitting at the bottom of my wardrobe for the past two years after a worn-through patch made them too embarrassing to wear. But they are just the right kind of worn, washed out denims to be worn at a festival where you might end up in a mud-bath, anyway.
So I took the scissors to my jeans and cut off the legs at knee-height. Instead of discarding the cut offs, I cut them open at the seams. Likewise, I cut the top half of the jeans open at the seams, carefully cutting out the seam nearly all the way up to the zip.
Then I placed a piece of denim from the off-cuts into the open triangle under the bit that is to become the skirt. The length will be adjusted later.
If you want slightly more detailed instructions, you can also look at my tutorial for a similar skirt I sewed some time last year.
So I am now kitted out for Electric Picnic 2011. A skirt ready to be discarded on site, if
Ready to rock!
Best,
4 comments:
I have a skirt just like that! Had it made though, as am no crafty sister as yourself - the skirt is going on its 11th year - and that is just in its new life! looks great!
Nice skirt Sonja, but quite frankly - I'm am drooling over your polka dot boots!!! A.D.O.R.A.B.L.E. Where did you get them?
Hi Yasmine - totally agree with you, those wellies are cute. So cute in fact, that I had to buy them although I still had a half-decent pair of boots. They were really cheap, though, € 20 in an Irish chain store called Dunnes.
Pitty, so far away from Canada...I went looking on the Dunnes Website and it was even worse : now I got to move to Ireland ;-)
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