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?
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”.)
Oh baby, I’m excited! I’m awful at tops but I have a few skirts I LOVE!!!
Wooooo Hooooo! count me in. I need some skirts and so does my 4 year old… does that count as pre teen?
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.
How fun!
Oh I’m in! This is going to be fuuuuunnnnn!
cool! I will see what I can make. :)
Yeah! I have some fabric that I bought about a year ago for a skirt and never got around to making it…I’m in!
Hurrah! That’s so exciting.
What a GREAT idea! I am IN !!!
Yay! I just got some fabric for a cool summer skirt. Now to get on it…
Awesome!
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!
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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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
heck ya!!!! I’m totally in!
Once again, amazing timing! I just finished making my first skirt!! Where do we enter them?
Ok, just what I need to do my ‘optician’ skirt!
I’ll be part of it!
The FrenchCanadian
Love this & the timing is perfect – I just got around to making myself a skirt (only took 8 months to get around to it);)
Just blogged about the skirt I made to the little princess for a birthday. So I’m so in :)
OOuuuhh….I wanna join but nervous too. I made several skirts in the past and started few this months…
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…
Woaa! First ‘optician skirt’ finished!!
You did gave me the motivation to help me finish it!
Happycindys, the FrenchCanadian!
Ooooooo, I’m tempted…
What a great contest! Thanks for hosting!
Found you through Jess @ Craftiness is not Optional. Thanks for a fun contest!
sounds great!
how do we enter?
i’ve got a children’s and an a-line i’d love to enter! :)
Hi
This is such a wonderful idea.I would love to enter but how??????
please lemme know
thanx
How fun! And I just finished a skirt for my daughter last night!
HOORAY! Seriously, you all are inspired. I was honestly sad when ‘Spring Top’ week finished! Thanks so much for organizing this inspirational bandwagon:)
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.
Quick Q, Is it a 4 skirts overall or 4 skirts per category limit?