I have been busting to show you my Christmas Skirt. Now that it is the 1st of December, here it is.
From a distance it looks like a fun spotty skirt but close up...
...BAUBLES!
I have a loathing for Christmas Jumpers - the acrylic, the lack of what to wear one with and still look nice, the sweatshop behind them etc. etc. Last year I received a serious barrage of teasing at the 'wear a Christmas jumper to work day' because I don't have one or wish to wear one. So this year I am coming back fighting with a sewing alternative.
A cotton A-line skirt which is lined so that it will always sit well on tights in December. Excuse me, it is a Saturday. I have been sewing, the girls are dancing to the radio and bloke is at the farm hedglaying therefore today is not a day to see my Saturday at home face!
I used vintage Simplicity 7725 view 4 which is still too long for me so I shortened it some more.
I have already worn it to the school Christmas fayre. It's also earmarked for work drinks, watching the girls school play performances at school, Christmas shopping and of course Christmas day!
What do you think? In my head, I have won!
Jo xxxxx
PS. I have learnt this week that the hard drive on my PC has gone bang and the data can not be retrieved which is so frustrating. I have lost so many pictures of the girls, all my lesson plans and activities for work along with photos for here. So bear with me while the PC is having a new hard drive fitted - I don't have photo editing software on Blokes laptop so things are not the quality I would like them to be. Everything for work is taking twice as long so time is short for blogging. I wrote a lesson plan with a biro today and I haven't done that in 20 years! Back up your stuff folks that is all I am saying.
Love it! The fabric is wonderful and it looks great on you. That is you sorted for Christmas :-)
ReplyDeleteAmalia
xo
Wow ~ I hate Christmas jumpers too ~ you have definitely won the jumper war!
ReplyDeleteIt's very pretty
ReplyDeleteWin win great skirt and fabby fabric. Better than a jumper K xXx
ReplyDeleteThat is tough about your hard drive. Hope it's fixed soon. This is definitely a win. Very Christmassy.
ReplyDeleteAmazing! A great make and so superior to a jumper, love the fabric. So sorry to hear about your hard drive.
ReplyDeleteFabulous, it's so much nicer than a Christmas jumper......definitely a win.
ReplyDeleteOh It's wonderful Jo.
ReplyDeleteAs you so so much nicer than a mass produced Jumper.
It looks great on you and i would love a Christmas skirt too. Ummm.
Sorry to hear about you computer troubles!
jacquie xxx
It is lovely xxx hope your wrist isn't hurting from all that writing. Xx
ReplyDeleteFabulous skirt!!! Even if they cant get everything back I hope they can retrieve something from your computer it will be so sad otherwise. It is good you have your blog so you can get some photos back from that at least. xx
ReplyDeleteYou look FABULOUS! I am loving the skirt and frankly have never liked the thought of a CHristmas themed sweater, but a skirt is perfect! So sorry about the computer issues, it is so hard when they don't work well and you lose so much!
ReplyDeleteHugs,
Meredith
Qué bonita!!
ReplyDeleteooo that's adorable!! SO much fun to have a Christmas themed skirt, now I want one too, hehe xx :)
ReplyDeleteBrilliant! You definitely won with the skirt! I am so sorry about your computer loss and appreciate your admonition to back up files! Wishing happy celebrations for you and yours :) xx
ReplyDeleteBeautiful skirt! But oh so so sorry to hear about your hard drive. Is it completely unsalvageable? And yes to backing up, boring but ultimately a good thing to do. xxx
ReplyDeleteLove the skirt - Christmasey but not too in your face Christmasey! So sad about your hard drive and the loss of all that info. I use a cloud (sugarsync) to back mine up, it does it automatically so I don't even have to remember to physically back it up (which I would forget to do!)
ReplyDeleteyay for the skirt which is lovely , oh no for the hard drive. We have some sort of a cloud back up, it's only when you need it that you realise how very important it is. We had a major virus catastrophe at work about a year ago which wiped a drive and we all learnt a very quick back up lesson. It's really photo that you are the most precious thing, maybe some thing will be recoverable.
ReplyDeleteSuch a cute skirt, is a shame I have only just had a chance to catch up on all blogs due to pressure of Christmas gifts makes running late, is a great idea to be festive without the acrylic! Is a lovely cute shape too, hope computer is sorted now ☺
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