Maxi skirt

          Yesterday was my day off, so I decided to do some work on my new pile of fabric. This is what I came up with:

It didn't take too long, actually. The hardest part was sewing with knits for the first time. Well, that and the fact that my sewing machine hadn't been adjusted yet, so I spent a lot of the first hour getting the bobbin tension to match the needle tension. Turns out that's pretty hard to do, especially when you don't have a mini screwdriver for the bobbin tension and have to use your seam ripper. Hunched over a small sewing machine stabbing at a tiny tiny screw with a very sharp object is not ideal, but it got the job done.

          The waistband is a solid chunk of black 2” wide elastic, and when I sewed it on to the skirt, I forgot to stretch it as I sewed. So then I tried to put it on and it didn't stretch and I couldn't get it past my knees. So I had to rip it out and do it again. And I also only had one functional bobbin (the other two were not the right kind), and I had to use both black and white thread. Obviously that's not going to work. So I guess the next time I go to the fabric store I'll have to pick up a bobbin or two.

         I was going to take a picture last night, but it was dark and my room has terrible lighting. Plus, I couldn't have taken it with the owl from the garden. He's supposed to be scaring all of the mice out of the garden, which he does with gusto. Unfortunately, they run into our house and have a party. We've caught ten in the last week.