The skater skirt has alway been that piece of clothing that I look at and think "I could do that" and guess what, I did. Just with two measurements and a little bit of trial and error I figured out how to make a fully functional skirt. Boom.
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| Everything you need:
- waist measurement and waist to how long you want it measurement
- fabric of choice ( I am a small and got about 2 yards which was perfect)
- invisible zipper in similar color to fabric
- matching color thread
- pencil
- crap ton of pins
- zipper foot for sewing machine (and the machine itself of course)
- seam ripper for mistakes
- 1 inch elastic in your waist measurement
- fabric scissors
- tape measure
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Take your two measurements and add an inch to each. These will be the new measurements you work with here on out. You'll need this for a half inch seam allowance while sewing things together.
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| Fold your fabric in half with the side you want to show touching. Sketch out a curve with half of your waist measurement. |
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| Take your length measurement and draw out another larger curve out so it looks like you've drawn out a rainbow. |
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| Pin down the fabric and cut along all the lovely lines we just made. |
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| With some of the excess fabric fold it over and pin it down. Measure out your waist measurement for the waist band. |
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| Make a line at an inch and a half and cut out the piece. |
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| These are the only pieces of fabric you are going to need so go ahead and put away and excess for some other project or something. |
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| While the pins are still there, go ahead and sew one side of the skirt together at half an inch. Go ahead and take out the rest of the pins as well. |
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| On the waist band, fold back half an inch.. |
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| .. then fold that in half with the side you want showing in. Then go ahead and sew that down and stay as close to the edge as possible. Repeat this for the other side of the waist band. |
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| When you turn the waist band it should look like this. |
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| Place the elastic inside the waist band. |
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| Pin down the waist band onto the skirt along the edge of the side you want seen. Make sure to leave a half inch of space on each side of the skirt. |
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| Using the zipper foot, sew as close to the elastic as possible. |
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| Sew on your zipper according to the directions in the packaging. Make sure to finish the seam down to the bottom below the zipper. This was the trickiest part for me, took a couple tries being that I am not an experienced zipper sewer. That's when the seam ripper came into play. |
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| Fold up half an inch along the entire bottom of the skirt and sew down for a finished edge. |
That's it. A finished, fully functional, skirt. Now go wear it and feel super cute and proud because you are the only person who will ever own that particular skirt.
Julia Carrington
Im developing a pretty bad addiction to stripes. Stripes are the classic clothing pattern that will always look good so I know it will never go out of style. You can throw a striped tee on with anything and it just looks good, like you know what you're doing. Here are 20 striped tees I found from well known clothing stores that were under $20.
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| Forever 21 $10.90 |
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| Forever 21 $17.90 |
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| ModCloth $19.99 |
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| Forever 21 $19.80 |
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| Forever 21 $12.80 |
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| Forever 21 $14.90 |
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| H&M $12.95 |
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| Forever 21 $10.80 |
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| Forever 21 $10.80 |
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| H&M $9.95 |
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| Forever 21 $9.90 |
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| Forever 21 $11.90 |
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| Forever 21 $12.90 |
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| Forever 21 $14.90 |
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| Forever 21 $13.90 |
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| Forever 21 $14.90 |
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| Forever 21 $14.80 |
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| Urban Outfitters $19.99 |
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| Cotton On $12.95 |
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| Forever 21 $17.90 |
Julia Carrington
This week I wrote my last college essay for my freshman year... {cue cheering and poppers}
So yeah that's crazy in and of it's self. This particular essay was for a US History course and the professor allowed us to write it on any topic we wanted as long as it was relevant to what we had discussed in the last few weeks of class, the late 1930s to the 1960s. I chose to write about the Hollywood Blacklist that started in the late 30s and ended in the early 60s. It was a crazy time for the film industry, but still so much good came out of it. It is crazy to think that all of this fear was happening when some of the biggest female stars were still emerging. Beautiful women of 40s like Rita Hayworth and Judy Garland who we still remember to this day. Three of the top beauty icon in history, Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, and Audrey Hepburn in the 1950s. Anyway I was obviously thinking more about these gorgeous women than my actual essay topic as I was writing so here are some stunning photos of them for you to enjoy and make you wish you could be half as glamorous as them.
Julia Carrington
