Mustard Yellow Flower Top

I had a fun day off last week of a dentist appointment and an interview in two different towns (both different from where I live) and involved a wide variety of buses and trains, but also somehow led me to the fabric shop I used to visit.  I bought some yellow flowery jersey from the remnants bin, I decided to try to make a top and a skirt.  I used a t-shirt and a wrap around top as guides for my pattern pieces and the construction was fairly simple although I was severely stimed by trying to hem jersey. It goes all crinkly, and I think I will unpick it and replace with lace.  I added lace to the mid section for some detail and fun.

 Above is the top deconstructed, so you can see all the pattern pieces.  There was only five pieces in total and some lace so it was fairly simple.

Blue Skirt wih Pleats

I finally got round to digging through my fabric stash and using some remnant upholstery fabric I had picked up ages ago.  I had two pieces in the same design, one blue and one mauve.  I use the blue one for the skirt- I had less than a meter (I think, I didn't actually measure it) and used it all for the skirt, and a strip of the mauve for the waist band.  I also used a mauveish zip.  In total it probably cost me less than £3 and took a  couple of                                                                                                            hours. 

I pleated the blue fabric and basted the pleats.  Then inserted the zip and sewed the back seam.  Then hemmed the bottom and sewed the waistband in. And voila- an easy peasy skirty.