On Saturday I worked on a project I’d been thinking about since I culled my material stash. I have a wrap skirt I’m rather fond of, that I bought on holidays for $10 or so. I used to have some wrap skirts just like it when I was a teenager. What I love about these wrap skirts is they’re forgiving. If I go up or down a size, or bloat after yet another Christmas party/dinner/bbq, I can just loosen or tighten the ties and it still fits. And I can skip on the ironing… well, sort of.

So I traced the old skirt out onto some paper to make a pattern, cut up some leftover navy cotton from the stash, and dragged out the machine. While I have more interesting fabric, it’s hard to shake the old habit of testing a pattern in cheap leftovers first. Once the skirt was done it was a touch boring, so I sewed random wavy lines of green cotton down the length of it. I also added an extra pair of ‘modesty’ ties at the hip, as the traditional pattern can be a touch, ahem, showy when you sit down and I don’t have the legs I had as a teen any more.

It fits. It’s looks okay. It’s comfortable. I like it. Next weekend, if the house reno stuff doesn’t take over, I might sew up another in some bold blue and green patterned cotton I have waiting.

Saturday night I found myself, thanks to the beau, watching an entire night of election coverage for the first time. It was surprisingly interesting… at times… and to save my sanity I worked on this:

Another headband, crocheted out of sock yarn leftovers. I hadn’t yet come up with the idea of trying a whole lot of other uses for sock yarns at this point. I’d gone looking for something more interesting than the Bluebell 5ply crepe stash to crochet them from and decided to try sock yarn leftovers.