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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!

10 comments:

Gail said...

I love the way your daughter is making creative styling decisions already. I'd wear this skirt! It is so pretty.

Anonymous said...

Funny! I just made this skirt a couple of days ago and blogged about it! Your daughter's is cute!

liza jane said...

So cute! I think I'd like to have a skirt like that, too.

Bernice said...

Lucy looks very cute. She's definitely mastered the twirl. The colours look so bright and fun together.

Gardams said...

Your daughters skirt looks great, and what a clever idea about the bright jumpers.

Gabrielle said...

I've seen this pattern before but hadn't realised it would look so cute made up - I love your fabric mix.

Audrey said...

Cute cute skirt, um I mean dress. I have a similar skirt pattern that I made and wore many years ago. I loved to twirl in it too. Wow, your photo really does show the contrast between your kids' bright sweaters and all the other folks wearing black.

gwensews said...

Your daughter is working that skirt! Cute skirt, cute girl!

Carolyn said...

That skirt/dress is completely adorable! Your fabric choices are inspired. Very artistic, and I love how they look together.
It's amazing that someone is nicking the pattern sheets from Burda magazine in your library! How selfish!! I don't buy all of the magazines, often the "one" copy that my newsagent gets is gone before I see it and sometimes I kick myself when I miss one that turns out to be a real goodie... I agree some issues are more fabulous than others

Jacquie said...

Very cute! Your daughter is one stylish girl.