One more project!

I made a quick little skirt for Kyra, for $3! Its very similar to a "bandana skirt", except a bandana skirt is more for a 18 month old or so (since its made out of just one bandana), so I used fabric fat quarters instead, so that I could make it a little longer. Fabric fat quarters were on sale for $1 at Joanns this week. I basically got two fat quarters of the same pattern, and one for the contrasting bottom. You basically sew strips of the contrasting fabric to your skirt fabric, then sew your two skirt fabric fat quarters into a tube. Then add elastic at the top, and hem the bottom. It really only an hour or less. I also appliqued some flowers on the bottom.

I had a couple people ask how to applique (the flowers on the bottom of the skirt and also the baby onesies in the previous post). There is this magic paper that they sell at Joanns called Wonder Under or Steam to Seam II. The cool thing about this stuff is that the fusible webbing (the stuff that makes it stick) is inbetween two pieces of paper. So you start by taking the paper off one side of the fusible webbing and sticking it to you fabric, and iron over the top for about 10 seconds. Then your cut out your pattern from the fabric. At this point I just use by cricut machine, and it does all the work for me. Here is a pretty good tutorial on how to cut out your pattern without using a cricut machine. After you cut out your pattern you stick it to your onesie or skirt or whatever, and iron over the top for 10 seconds and it is there permenately! It really super easy and quick!