{"id":1838,"date":"2014-04-10T14:53:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T21:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=1838"},"modified":"2016-01-19T23:11:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T07:11:38","slug":"my-attempt-at-the-rectangle-skirt-deluxe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=1838","title":{"rendered":"The “Rectangle Skirt Deluxe”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Perfect outfit for an evening walk in the woods for this adventurous girl.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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My daughter loves this skirt – she chose the cloth and trim. The waistband and pockets have golden angels on them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next up on my sewing streak was a skirt, inspired by the “Rectangle Skirt Deluxe” tutorial that I spotted on pinterest. Look at this little wonder – adorable!<\/p>\n

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Source: Groovy baby and mama blog<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The tutorial had pretty good pictures that I could follow, though the instructions were not in English. I deciphered most of the important points using google translate, except for a couple key points: the pockets and the waistband.<\/p>\n

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My daughter’s choice of cloth and trim for the skirt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I googled another pattern to figure out the pockets, since I couldn’t detect whether it was the front or back side of the cloth when attaching the pockets.<\/p>\n

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Pockets – in progress – these kind of remind me of elephants. I do a lot of these projects at night, thus the poor lighting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another problem, possibly lost in translation, was that the skirt’s ample fullness ends right below what appears to be a non-elasticized waistband. The one I cut was too snug for elastic to make any difference, and my daughter could barely pull the skirt on, so I ended up cutting it and adding a zipper at the back.<\/p>\n

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Finished product<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So while the final outcome was a little bit botched, I have a happy client who eagerly wore the skirt to school the next day, and our evening stroll that followed:<\/p>\n

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Skirt in action on the schoolyard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Wandering in the enchanted forest<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Children<\/a>
I love how imaginative our kids are, and I want these clothes to get played in (though it is a very muddy time of year!) My son chose this walk after having seen the trail head last week. He navigated us driving back to it tonight. It was a good pick!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Another tall mossy ferny tree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Beautiful licorice-fern and moss coated branches above my head.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This picture captures the essence of our family at this stage! The kids were making boats out of sticks and racing them in the stream.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Next up on my sewing streak was a skirt, inspired by the “Rectangle Skirt Deluxe” tutorial that I spotted on pinterest. Look at this little wonder – adorable! The tutorial had pretty good pictures that I could follow, though the … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,35,36,37,38],"tags":[216,263,360,405,446,525,566,595,650,669,806,822,861,879,975],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-2","category-nature-2","category-parenting-2","category-photography-2","category-sewing-2","tag-british-columbia","tag-childhood-unplugged","tag-diy","tag-fabric","tag-forest","tag-homemade","tag-kids","tag-licorice-ferns","tag-moss","tag-nature","tag-rectangle-skirt","tag-rickrack","tag-sewing","tag-skirt","tag-vintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}