left to right

it's weird, but there's a specific time of day, in each specific season, when i can't get enough of the skewed view from our apartment.  it's well into cocktail hour as i type this, and the light hitting the buildings that fill our windows can't be described as sun, more as afterglow.  indeed, even the use of "building" as plural is going a bit far.  there are two beasts that eat our glass rectangles onto the world, both of different brick, different perspective even, blonde diagonal on the left and straight ahead redhead on the right, and when you stare at the view for too long you believe you're looking at some strange faux hollywood backdrop.  this scene lasts for about three minutes before it disappears.  golden hour in one hundred and eighty seconds.

apparently the close beverage and the distant view make me wax poetic, but one must always focus on a bit of breadth when toiling at the computer, to save one's peepers.  and thus endeth your PSA for the day.  lest i fall back into old habits and talk about everything but the sewing (and o believe me, I WILL) let's get down to the garment.

this skirt was made for my mood fabrics march MSN allowance.  she was supposed to have a mate, but in the end, i decided it was better to just make her as well as i could, rather than hammer through two singles as fast as i could.  why hastily introduce separates before they're mature enough to handle a relationship??  i don't want one night stands in my closet anymore.    

really though, it's not the fault of the intended couple, i shot myself in the pied (my high school french comes back to me the more i imbibe, thank you Madame Minor for passing me with a C grade)... i could have made a match, had i been able to concentrate on the lovers.  but when the MSNers wanted to play group challenge again, the awesome lori came up with "designer inspiration," and i was lost in a sea of sexy choices. like a speed dater, i flitted happily between so many runways, i can't remember half of them anymore. i got all the way through minute 8 with an anna sui dress, but then altazurra whispered sweetly to my right, and i was off to the next table.

harlot.

YUMMMM.  come sit at my table, if indeed you can sit in your skirt, m'ladies.  i hope you can, cause i can full on lounge in mine!  oh, excuse me, i haven't even mentioned the third player in this love triangle-- or is it a foursome now?  EGADS.  the charlotte skirt, from...you know them, i do so hope you love them....my favorite indie gals...the ladies at by hand london!  how i've not made this pattern yet is beyond me.  

sometimes i'm not the brightest bulb in the box.

BUT I'LL SHINE IN ORANGE N GOLD BOUCLE LIKE A HUNDRED WATT MOTHA YO

i took 4 inches off the length, from above the hemline, and that's the one adjustment i made.  uno.  un. c'est tout.  and i went ruffle.  because given the choice WHY WOULD YOU EVER NOT HAVE THE RUFFLE. RUFFLES ARE GLORIOUS ALWAYS AND FOREVER. ALWAYS AND FOREVER LIKE A 70'S PROM.  

party in the front, and even more party in the back, because that's the way uhhuh uhhuh i like it.

(ssssssssh oona you don't say things like that on a first date)

here's a shot of me passive aggressively "advising" ruggy to get the shot right.  bonus side effect, LOOKIT THAT SIDE SEAM!  straight as an arrow!!  on a hiphugging skirt for godsakes!   BHL FOREVER. 

it's hard to photograph just how gorgeous this fabric is in real life.  yes, that's radiant orchid in there, and the gold is almost watery in its iridescence.  she's underlined in a melony pink poly blend.  her intended mate is a plaid chartreuse shot through with silver.  i like mixed marriages.

yeah, i know, there are some draglines on the left, that seam allowance suffered from overhandling of boucle.  it was highly pettable stuff, there was fondling, whaddaygonnado.

since its debut on MSN, sonja has dubbed it the Happy Sexy Koi Skirt, which i QUITE LIKE. also since then, the BHL ladies have reached 12k in their kickstarter effort for their next adventure: on demand digital fabric printing for you and me.  GO LADIES!  i really, really, REALLY want them to make it. like if any family members are wondering what to get me for my birthday, go kick in a little somethin' in the name of oona.

(yes, i know my birthday is in august.  i begin preparations at least a full six months in advance.  and since it's back to 22 degrees here, i refuse to think of anything else but summer.  golden hour actually lasts for fifteen minutes in summer, yo.  THAT'S INSANE.)

this mermaidesque skirt was made using my monthly fabric "allowance" as part of the Mood Sewing Network.