Messy Applique Skirt

Flat Skirt

I saw some beautiful work on an appliqued table runner by Calamity Kim and while I couldn’t hope to match it without devoting a year of my life to it, I was inspired to make something mushroomy and house-y with raw edged applique and freehand machine embroidery.

Bird & House

This bird is my favorite part of the machine embroidery I think, some of it is really awful. But that’s what I get when I don’t do any planning or sketching, and just stitch – really wonky stitch tension, and a broad spread of accidental awesome to ick.

Dance

When I started out, my goal was a skirt. By the time I was done with the applique, I didn’t think it really looked like a skirt anymore. But I forged ahead anyway, even though I’d put mushroom roots down past the hem line and birds up past the elastic casing fold line. Obviously I should have done a little more planning than “don’t get too close to the edges.” Because that didn’t work so well. But whatever. I used the ribbon hem binding from the oliver+s lazy days skirt pattern. That may have been why I secretly wanted to make a skirt, just so I could try out that ribbon binding, it’s so cool.

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That skirt is too cute! I think I’d like an adult version for myself! I love the big red mushroom. I’ve also been anxious to try the ribbon binding from the oliver + s lazy days skirt – very cool.

love this picture of rebecca! hey, i’ve noticed you are posting more often than once a week… great! i love your blog, and not just for the pics of R. i am loving your creativity… it’s fun to watch. i liked the comment you got that one person reads your blog like others read travel books… just for fun. that’s cool. congrats and love, jennifer

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