thank you for the advice on the dress…I *think* I’m going to do the V in the back and lower the neck just a bit in the front, because I too can’t stand a really high neck.  I’m planning on making it this week, getting it ready for Easter Sunday.

This weekend I made myself a new spring skirt using a print from Amy Butler’s Midwest Modern.

I used New Look pattern 6843, and would not recommend it.  I bought the pattern years ago-back in college- and used it successfully once before.  Because it is such an old pattern, it is designed to be high waisted, me, I’m a big fan of anything low rise.  I cut the pattern a bit bigger so that I could wear it lower, which caused problem with the darts, and then it didn’t hang right.  I tried a new way (rather than the successful way I’ve been doing it for years!) to stitch the zipper…which caused some puckers.  Then the center back seam created a pleat.  There was much time spent hunched over with a seam ripper in my hand.  I finally got it wearable, however the waist is still higher than I would like.

Anyone want to recommend a skirt pattern- something simple that can be dressed up or down?  I think I need one more new skirt.

p.s. the sewing room always looks like that when I’m in the middle of a project.  A total mess.

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