Poodle Skirts!
My job holds monthly madatory inservice meetings, and this year they held it on Halloween with the theme of 1950. At first my friend Maria and I were desperatly searching the internet on ideas for outfits. Then I saw my grand idea on Pinterest, a Poodle Skirt! I looked at Maria and with laughter in my voice I declared, "I'll make us poodle skirts." So, with mounting excitment I went to town on Thursday to buy all the materials that I needed. This was six days before the inservice, I figured that a poodle skirt could not be that hard, right? =)
I used an old pattern that my mom had. But, it did not have any instructions on how to put the skirt together. So I had to use another skirt patterns instructions which thankfully worked perfectly.
I used the pattern on the left, and used the instructions of the pattern on the right.
Maria wanted a gray poodle skirt, and I decided on black.
On Saturday I started my skirt first to see if there would be any changes that I would need to make. The skirt went together nicely and then I came to the design. I had bought an iron-on-poodle and silver, rope trim. But I had not realized that in order to attach the trim you needed fabric glue. I felt like I was in a big pickle, the only other way to attach the trim was to sew it on. My heart fell. All I wanted to do was tack on the "leash" trim in the swirls and curves that are the signiture touch of a poodle skirt. But, I rolled up my sleeves, thanked God for an opportunity to work on my handsewing skills, turned on some music, pinned the trim on in format that I wanted, and then I began to sew.
This is the trim
After I had the trim stitched on I figured that rest should be easy since the poodle just ironed on. But no. Alas, as I tried so valiantly to iron that dog on it would not stick! The dreaded was becoming reality, I would now have to tack the poodle on as well. So on Saturday night, five days before the meeting, I took a needle and a thimble and tacked on that crazy dog. On Monday I finished putting in the waist band. Skirt one was done and I had two days before the meeting but really only one day to complete the skirt and make sure that it fit Maria.
The Poodle I tacked on.
Completed Skirt Details
With all my lessons learned from my skirt I was able to put Maria's skirt together like a ninja on Monday afternoon/night. I altered that skirt, sewed on the trim and tacked on the poodle.Tuesday morning they both were completed and I declared them to be dance proof. The trim nor the poodle were going to fall off! =) I was so happy with the outcome of the skirts. The only thing I forgot when I wore the skirt was the belt that I had bought. Oh well. *sigh* Have an amazing day ya'll!
~Laura Arminta
Timothy and I
Yeah! Us awesome looking people.
Maria and I
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