heart anemone (deer and doe)

i love this skirt - deer and doe's new anemone skirt. the photos in this post are slightly weird having been taken indoors this afternoon while it was raining outside, but hopefully you get the picture.

deer and doe describe the pattern as "fitted high waisted skirt, lined, in two versions: short with peplum, or knee-length with decorative buttons.  i went with the short with peplum version - or 'peplets' as amanda from bimble + pimble named them when some of the sydney spoolettes met up with amanda for dinner on friday night, which btw was fun!

the only changes i made were to:

• lower the waist height by 1 inch prior to cutting the fabric as i thought the waist looked a little bit too high for me.  after trying the skirt on during construction i used a 2cm seam for the waist to reduce the height a bit more.  i am very happy with how the height of the waist turned out.
• add 4 belt carriers where the front and back pieces join the side pieces as i prefer to wear a belt with high waisted skirts.  I used the same great collette tutorial that i used for both my kelly skirts.
• use a standard zip and do a lap insertion (the instructions are for an invisible zip). i only did this as i had a suitable standard zip in my stash.  i did the zip 3 times, once just eyeballing it in, but it was a bit wonky and obvious with the contrast thread, 2nd time i drew the sewing line on the fabric and pinned it in place, it was still a bit wonky so i ended up basting it in and finally got a pretty straight line. 

i used a pre bought bias binding for the hem to keep as much length as possible as i want to wear this skirt to work. the pattern contains pieces for the lining and i used 'elegance' from martha pullen again -  i used it recently in my laurel.  this is great lining fabric.  

here's a close up of the 'peplets' i really like how they add design detail and interest to the skirt, while not sticking out too far from the body.

the main fabric came from ikea.  i have seen this fabric in the navy colourway made up in the moss mini on blogs. but on a recent ikea trip i saw this orange/red version for the first time so i grabbed 1m for $7.99.  the pattern suggests a fabric requirement of 1.6m for the long version and i got this skirt comfortably from the metre while matching the circles as best i could.

i cut a size 42 which pretty much matches my measurements for waist and hips and i didn't make any alterations for fit - yahoo!

oh yes i love this skirt. there will be more.

emma