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Announcing Skirt Week with Crafterhours!

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To make a long story short, we haven’t had enough selfish sewing yet. Rae got us in the mood to do more, and now we need some skirts to go with our spring tops. Hey, you too?

Well, here’s what we’ve got in mind:  Skirt Week 2010!  June 21 – 25.

You make a skirt that fits one of our categories (more info in a sec) and put it into a designated Flickr pool.  And here’s the part where we are super awesome and those of you dealing with end-of-school-year/summer-vacay/moving-across-the-atlantic chaos will thank us:  You can enter any skirt you’ve ever made in your entire life ever.  EVER.  Aren’t we SO nice?  But, you can only enter a maximum of 4.  So, yeah, maybe we’re just pleasant.  Deadline for entering skirts is midnight EST, June 18, then we choose winners based on what’s in the pool at that time.  And yes, we’ll be awake, thanks to a pretty handy time difference.

As this is our first Skirt Week, we want to keep things nice and simple.  If it’s a hit, maybe we’ll do it again next year with more fanfare and regulations.  For now, we just wanna see those skirts, ladies! (or, you know, gents.  We’re flexible.)

The categories are:

  • Children’s Skirts (use your discretion, but we’re thinking pre-teen here)
  • Straight (mini, pencil, long)
  • Full (gathered, pleated, tiered, circle)
  • A-line (um, you know, shaped like an “A”.)
We figure you guys can handle your own classifications, but if we find one that is grossly mislabeled, we might help you out.  Like if you put a gypsy skirt into the “straight” category.  Oh, the horror.
And while we may be keeping things simple, we do have some pretty rad prizes!  You guys are gonna want to get in on this.  We have a prize package for each skirt category, so there will be 4 winners.  We’ll give more details about the loot in a later post so you have time to prepare yourself for the awesomeness.
For this go-around, Susan and Adrianna will be the judges and just pick our favorite from each category.  Hopefully we’ll still be speaking afterwards.  We tend to have slightly different opinions and enjoy expressing them vehemently.  Again, if you guys are into Skirt Week, we’ll do it bigger and badder next year with some “real” judges.
Sound cool?  Are you guys on board?  Remember, any skirt you’ve ever made ever!  Really, this is more of a great big skirt inspiration round-up (with prizes) than a competition, so let’s see what you’ve got!
So, to sum it up:  
Skirt Week!  June 21 – 25, 2010.
Enter up to 4 skirts.
Categories: kids, straight, full, A-line.
Deadline for entry June 18.
Adrianna & Susan pick a winner from each category.
Prizes!

And keep checking back here for further info, a round up of some handy skirt tutorials, and a run down on those fabulous prizes!

Comments

  3. Melanie says

    How fun, I’m glad you included our LIFE in the skirt-making guidelines because I finished one a few weeks ago that, well, makes my skirt fly up.

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  12. Sonia says

    cool! i love seeing clothes for anyone other than kids! there are so many tutorials and patterns for little girl clothes, but I RARELY find anything for us gals. Can’t wait to see!

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  13. Leigh says

    Yay! I have had a couple of skirts bouncing around in my head and now that teacher gift making season is over, I can get started!

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  15. Shannon says

    Wahoo! Love this! I’m going to sew an entire skirt out of twill tape! I even just found it at my local fabric warehouse in purple! Mua-Ha-Ha! (For a dime a yard!)
    Is it weird that I’m thinking about entering one of my Srping Top Week rejects? It really was born a skirt, not a shirt. Poor thing is just trying to fit in somewhere. Can’t wait! : )-Shannon

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  22. Jenn says

    This is just what I need. I have a PILE of skirt – patterns/fabric/etc. that I want to sew, but just have not got going on it. Oh how I need to be motivated…

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  23. Anonymous says

    Woaa! First ‘optician skirt’ finished!!
    You did gave me the motivation to help me finish it!

    Happycindys, the FrenchCanadian!

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  30. Janica says

    HOORAY! Seriously, you all are inspired. I was honestly sad when ‘Spring Top’ week finished! Thanks so much for organizing this inspirational bandwagon:)

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  31. sneezerville says

    help! boy i hope you get this comment. i have one more entry for the full skirt category only my flickr account is being fickle and won’t let me on. here is the link to my skirt:
    http://sneezerville.wordpress.com/2010/06/17/slow-summer-stitch-leaves-gored-skirt-2/

    can this count?

    oh and if by any chance i win something ( i am thinking positively!), can you contact me through my blog? and give me about a week. i am without internet during the summer and have to borrow it to get anything done. thanks.

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