Pintester’s 10-minute skirt sewing fail

Craft fails happen to all of us. Some are more of a fail than others. Pintester chronicles a sewing fail using a favorite tutorial of mine, a 10-minute girl’s skirt from an old t-shirt. It really is a great tutorial, and it makes a cute gathered skirt. The fail starts when Pintester decides to make the skirt for herself instead of for a little girl, and it goes downhill from there. If you’ve ever had a sewing fail before, you’ve got to read this. I’m sure you’ll recognize a few of your missteps in there.

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The 10-Minute Pseudo-Skirt That I’ll Never Wear in Public, by Pintester

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I’m always tempted by the pretty velvets at the fabric store. So much texture! And the way the fibers catch the light! But sewing on velvet is trickier than you’d think. That nap that lends beautiful texture also likes to slip and crawl. That nap can also spell disaster if you cut a piece the wrong direction. That isn’t to say you shouldn’t use buy that velvet and sew it into something gorgeous, you just need to go into your velvet sewing project prepared. And Melissa at Melly Sews has a post that takes you step by step through sewing on velvet.

Velvet is such a luscious fabric, especially for winter sewing projects. Of course there are velvet Christmas sewing projects – stockings, tree skirts, santa hats – but velvet is beautiful for all winter. Think of all the gorgeous velvet dresses, evening bags, hair accessories, even pillows and other home décor that you see all winter long.

Melly Sews’ post gives you the tips and tricks you need to know in order for your velvet sewing project to end up a success. There are types of projects better suited for velvets, and kinds of projects to avoid. She describes the different types of velvet available. And she also tells the best way to lay out and cut your pattern pieces from velvet fabric. Her tutorial also covers marking, pressing, and of course sewing that beautiful fabric. There’s also a video included in case that’s your preferred method for learning.

Head over to Melly Sews to learn how to sew on velvet fabric.

And if you want to learn more about that lovely blue velvet dress shown, she has a post that tells more about it including 2 ways to style it depending on if you want to be more dressy or more casual.

[photo credit: Melly Sews]

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Rena Pearson says
May 11, 2016 at 6:30 am
It sounds like she already knew this was going to fail but kept going???? Done correctly for little girls, it’s an adorable idea! Of course if you add a couple more t-shirts it would make a cute maxi skirt for an adult with a yoga waistband (not done by hand!).

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