Denim Patchwork

If you are a person who has a limited appreciation for wacky clothing, you might want to click away right now.
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OK, now that they are all gone, here it is!

This skirt formed in my mind when looking at Me-Made-May photos of Catherine from The Makings of an Urban Rustic. Her photos depict her swanning about her cozy-chic home in flowy maxi skirts and intricate handknits. She has a very clear sense of style, and it is quite compelling to me.

The pattern is a spiral skirt with 8 identical gores, which does not seem like it would work, but it does. I cut the gore pattern into 6 pieces. I cut out one gore at a time, pieced it together, then went on to the next one. This was easier than cutting all the pieces at once, then having a million little bits of denim flying around my sewing room. I added some godets to the back because this whole project was not complicated enough for me. And so there would be more fullness near the hem.

The fabric is mostly some selvedge denim that I had lying about, with various other twills that I had scraps of. Some of the fabric is from an old pair of black jeans that I had that wore through at the knees. I probably should not be sharing all this information with you.

back view

Back view, highlighting the godets that add some extra fullness to the back near the hem.

side view

I roughed up the seams with sandpaper to get them to stand out more.

This is the pattern that I based the project on, Neue Mode 22726. It is almost certainly long OOP.

I made a skirt like this once before, and I wear it all the time. It will be nice to have another, slightly different, patchwork denim skirt.

Here I am wearing my old denim patchwork skirt in October 2010.

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