Matching Skirts!

Last weekend I went to visit Harriet in Cornwall, where she's been staying all summer so that she can work down there. On Friday afternoon we went into Helston, which she frequents rather often, due to her almost obsessive addiction to independent charity shops (of which there are many good ones there) to source fabric and clothes for altering/making up, and found 2 packs of about 60"x 60" gorgeous thick navy cotton with a white flower pattern for £1 each! So of course we had to have them. Then she showed me a tiny little fabric/haberdashery shop there, which had some marked-down, discontinued patterns, where we found McCall's M5473 for high-waisted tulip skirts:


Ok, so we don't really like patterns, but sometimes they're useful, especially when you're wanting to do a certain shaped something-or-other but you don't really know how. I've been wanting to do a stiff-waisted skirt with box pleats for ages and ages so a pattern for £2.90 was a complete steal! A whole day of sewing followed, 9 til 5 hard grafting, with the end result being two matching skirts! We only altered the pattern by making it about 5 inches shorter than it said to - other than that it was perfect.

We wore the end result on a brief country walk (so with thick socks and boots!) because of spending the entire day indoors attached to a sewing machine! Agreed, we are a little bit old to be wearing matching stuff, got several funny looks... but it was fun all the same! Harriet's was styled to perfection - god I love that blazer!!! My excuse was only having 3 days' worth of clothes to accessorise with instead of my whole wardrobe!

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