nursery rhyme skirt

I found this blue fabric at a charity shop and thought it was so cute I had to buy it. the fabric has nursery rhyme characters on it, Little Bo Peep, Humpty Dumpty. Hey Diddle Diddle, and Hickory Dickory Dock.



the fabric was only a yard and unfortunately when I got it home and unfolded it, it had a pretty big flaw in. I lost about four inches from the flaw, which was a bit disappointing. I wasn’t exactly sure what I was going to make from the fabric as it was not a very big piece so it sat in my stash while I considered , finally I came up with a circle skirt with an added panel to make it long enough. the bow is made from the circle I cut for the waist. I just folded it in half and sewed it into a semi circle then scrunched it up in the middle, and slapped on a button. the white is actually cut off from a duvet cover that was too long, and I believe was like a eight hundred thread count so its really nice cotton. the lace, zipper, button and pearls were all in my stash.



originally I didn't want elastic in the waist, but I really need to work on my math skills because the waist turned out too big, apparently I didn't do a very good job at figuring out how much bigger the waist would be once I took up the seam allowance. circles are weird like that. rather then get too upset about it though I just put elastic in the waist, since that was so much easier then any other solution