Paekakariki Hill Road
And Kapiti Island in the background.
The search for the perfect shorts
I've been very taken with the Itch to Stitch Belize Skort. I quite fancy the idea of a skirt with a pair of built in short. Possibly stemming from my days of cycling to school with my bottle green pinafore school uniform and trying to keep the cycle somewhat PG 13.
So version 1 was a muslin using wine fabric from stash (purchased way back in the early days of my sewing to upholester a couch but I moved first! Its not upholestry fabric). I made a rough version using my largest measurement (waist) which worked out as size 20.
The pattern is beautifully drafted and has some really lovely features - like the mitred corners on the inside of the skirt front.
Not very well mitred above ast was my test case and I couldn't really figure how all the pieces went together. But so impressed with the different pattern pieces and how neatly finished the garment is.
The Belize shorts part of the skort is only really visible at the sides where the skirt curves up. The back pattern p…
So version 1 was a muslin using wine fabric from stash (purchased way back in the early days of my sewing to upholester a couch but I moved first! Its not upholestry fabric). I made a rough version using my largest measurement (waist) which worked out as size 20.
The pattern is beautifully drafted and has some really lovely features - like the mitred corners on the inside of the skirt front.
Not very well mitred above ast was my test case and I couldn't really figure how all the pieces went together. But so impressed with the different pattern pieces and how neatly finished the garment is.
The Belize shorts part of the skort is only really visible at the sides where the skirt curves up. The back pattern p…
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