A gift and skirting the issue.

First of all, I must thank sweet Laurie for the cutest little bundle she sent me in the mail.  A couple lovely pieces of fabric, some lace and a awesome little bag of buttons and goodies.  I do love me some buttons!  It's so fun getting stuff in the mail. I should have shown a better photo of the orange fabric. It's really cute, with mushrooms and things on it. Thank you so much Laurie! 
 Remember how I was saying I have so much to do? Yeah, well I did accomplish some of it, but then the kiddo was being incredibly uncooperative so what's a lady supposed to do with a day that going nowhere good? Go thrifting for an hour. 
Go on and click the photo. 
Keely found that silky stuff in the background with red polka dotted patterns on it for me and I adore it. It reminds me of Christmas. Then I got some linen & canvas scraps, a green pitcher that is being stolen away by the little turkey here and those awesome 1950-60's puzzles made in Holland. They are so flippin' cool.  When we got home the child continued to frazzle my brain and test my patience. After she woke up from her nap she cried and whined almost non-stop for 2 hours. Whaaaa?  She finally snapped out of it when daddy decided to make homemade pizza and she got to help.  She gets in these miserable moods so often in the afternoons, I really want to lock myself in a closet sometimes. I start to think something is seriously wrong with her, but then when she gets over it-she acts perfectly normal and happy.  I think the nap messes up her head. She takes a long time to come out of the fog of sleepiness and every little thing that doesn't go right and even things that do, just send her off and nothing can make her feel better. I'm also suspecting some low blood sugar something going on. Whatever it is, I can do without it. Oy.
Anyway, I decided I needed to go make something instead of feeling frazzled about the little mons angel. So I started the skirt making party. First, I made a practice one out of hideous material and it turned out quite good. She wouldn't let me take a picture. Shocking. Then, I used that thrifty silky stuff to try a different style. 
It's shape isn't so good, but she likes it and has worn it all day. And then I made another one with this navy and white mini-herringbone fabric. Very fallish. She's got an odd pose here so it partially explains the wonky shape.
I really know nothing about clothes making. I just make stuff up and I'm so amazed when anything turns out right. Waistbands? I dunno. Elastic? beats me. Hemming curved edges? Darned if I know. I'm sure none of these aspects are done the correct way, but they still work.  I tried one last one with the silky stuff and it is by far the best, but again…the model wasn't cooperating. I want to make a lined skirt for her, but I can't wrap my head around how to do that yet. Anyway, today we had a good day together and I made some skirts. Hopefully, there will not be crying after today's nap. please. no more crying.