The ultimate twirling skirt

I love finding our about independent pattern companies, so I was most excited when a friend recently introduced me to farbenmix and Studio Tantrum patterns.  These are patterns for children.  My friend gave me the Redondo skirt pattern and I loved it so much that I then went out and bought their book "Sewing Clothes Kids Love". 

I made this Redondo skirt for my daughter.  She loves it, but much prefers to wear it as a strapless dress over leggings.  She tries to turn everything in her dress-up box into a strapless short dress, so that is obviously her style preference!

The pattern is essentially 2 pieces, an upper flounce and a lower flounce.  Five full flounces are sewn together to make the skirt.  I cut the pieces on the bias so that I could get them out of a fat quarter, which seems to have worked okay.

Here it is, being worn as a skirt, on the streets of Tokyo.  I had bought my kids brightly coloured jumpers to minimise my chances of losing them in a crowd.  As it seems almost everybody wears black in Tokyo, this was even more effective than I had anticipated!