Welcome to the first round of Skirt Week voting! If you’re new to Skirt Week, here’s the story. We’ve invited sewists to sew skirts and contribute photos of their work via the flickr pools you’ll find either in our right-hand sidebar or in the Skirt Week announcement post. From those pools which closed to new…
Skirt Week: Ready for Action!
Each part of Skirt Week has its fun. The tutorials give you plenty of fun new ideas. The sponsors throw in lots of crafty swag as incentives. And THIS is the week– we post skirts for voting! There are three hundred and sixty five skirts in our Skirt Week pools! WOW!Here’s how this week will…
Skirt Week Sponsor: Twill Tape Guy
Are you an old-timer around here? If so, you may remember Twill Tape Week. And Twill Tape Guy. He’s been a crafty friend of ours for what seems like forever, and is one of the few guys in our crafty contact book. He is the king of Twill Tape. Like, you don’t order a teeny…
Skirt Week Sponsor: Birdsongs and Bows
Next up in our sponsor parade, please welcome Birdsongs and Bows! This store is all about the pretty. It’s a place that any little girl would want to live. And who could blame them? There are step by step pictorial instructions for how to make pretty bows: Flowers: And accessories: You can buy the tutorials…
Skirt Week Sponsor: Fabricworm
Great skirts require great fabric. The fabric we can get our hands on for far less than an arm and a leg these days is nothing short of amazing to me. Including the fabric I find at Fabricworm. One of the reasons I stopped sewing in college was that I couldn’t find fabric I liked….