Woodland Fairy Skirt 2

Pixies, pucks, sprites and fairies,

Make your rags, so bright and airy

Choose today what you will make

Tomorrow comes a bit too late

But, yeste’day falls on Tuesday morn

So, wake the frogs and blow your horn!

Yeh, I know, it’s silly and nonsensical… just a little frivolous fun!

This is my second woodland skirt. Here’s the other one. 

I’ve become quite enthralled with “fairy vines.” 🙂 I’ve always been attracted to the fairy folk.

What fun it would be to become a fairy, flitting from flower to flower, or resting on a leaf beside a perfumed bloom, listening to the buzzing bees’ lullaby! (Remember the story of Tom Thumb? I loved it as a child!)

Or…! …to witness these tiny, pocket-sized pixies! Imagine being in an English garden, hidden from view, watching their playfulness undetected! 🙂

Who wants to live in the real world, anyway? This world of ours is getting worse by the minute! I’d rather live in the land called Imagination! 

So…

Materials: 

• green skirt from thrift
• upholstery remnant
• Indian sari, scarf
• belt that I made

Step 1: I started with a green silk skirt, gathered at the waist with a cord, with a seed-bead and sequin design around the bottom.

This skirt was handmade by an East Indian woman. I’d had it for quite a while, found, I’m sure, at a thrift or rummage.

It had no tags or label, but was made in the fashion of things Indian.

Step 2:  Among the fabric fragments I had gathered were some wispy remnants of a green Indian sari; and a scarf, handmade, I think, constructed of ribbons and other oddments, in brown hues typical of woodland colors.

I cut these in pieces to alternate, sewn together to make a long strip to be gathered for a ruffle.

Step 3: I had a long piece of upholstery fabric whose colors blended very nicely with the colors so far in the skirt. 

I finished the top edge by folding it over, gathered the top—and sewed it onto the green skirt with two lines of stitching about 1 1/2 inch apart just below the tie cord.

Step 4:  I made four vertical gathers part way up from the bottom of the top tier, and sewed it down with the machine: two in front (over the hip bone area), and two corresponding in back.

Step 5: I added some chunks of green denim in the drawn-up places, and tore some into fringe.

Step 6: I inserted an inch-wide elastic in what became the casing (tunnel for elastic—between the two rows of stitching).

Step 7: I made three belt loops of the green denim, attaching them on each side and one in the center of the back.

Lastly, I inserted the belt that I made previously.

 

 

Awake! I say

You sleeping fae!

Bring forth your needle and thread.

The day is new

You’ve nothin’ to do

But, Sew your heart away!