Red Bandana Sewing Project

My latest project was this red bandana fabric. I'd actually forgotten I had this fabric... I found it in some decorating supplies in my pantry when I got out my ice cream maker for Memorial Day, and I remembered buying it and cutting some pieces to line baskets with during a party we had awhile back. Even with the pieces cut, there was still plenty of fabric to make KA an outfit. I'd bought a pattern for a summer outfit that I'd never made before, so I decided to try it.

The pattern was for a tie-side skort with pockets, and I've never done pockets before. (I mean real pockets... I've done flat front pockets that are just little squares, but never a real, in-the-seam pocket.) It made me a little nervous about the pockets, so I cut the pattern in early June, but never got around to sewing it until this week.

Turns out, it wasn't hard at all! The steps for putting in the pockets didn't seem logical to me, but they were easy enough once I just followed them without really thinking too much. The skort only took me a few hours to do from start to finish, and the shirt was even easier! The whole shirt construction took me only 48 minutes... from 7:04 am until 7:52 am when I heard Katie Anne waking up. Don't ask me why I know those exact times. I'm weird. The nice thing about the shirt is that it doesn't have any closures at all! It kind of just opens up and slides over her head, and then slides around her arms. Hard to explain, but, that saved tons of time.

The front of the outfit...
The back...
For the movies on Wednesday, I put a shirt under the top so she didn't get too cold...

The only bad thing is that it is a little big. I guess that's better than too small, though. Maybe she can wear it next year! My next plan for this pattern is to use the top and then improvise a skirt to attach to make it a dress with a keyhole back. I've got some cute frog fabric to use for that idea!

(Oh, and the pictures are a little blurry because my camera was accidentally still set on "night snapshot" from the beach last week. Oops!)