October Slow Sewing - and What I Found Out.

October has been a strange sort of month - both on the personal front and the sewing front. The personal front is not that interesting to write about - just that our transition from a secure contract to full self employment has been a little tedious. So I settled on a simple hand sewn skirt for the month of October, thinking that slow sewing Alabama Chanin style would sooth my soul. I found a picture that rather appealed to me as it is geometric. I happen to like geometric patterns. The randomness of the shapes I thought would work well with cotton jersey, because it is not easy to cut straight. Some easy hand stitching, nice and relaxing, and voila, a nice me made Alabama Chanin inspired skirt. I notice that my inspiration design had stencilled stripes applied to the background fabric. So I decided to draw on some stripes with a wax dye crayon. I then ironed them to fix the dye (with of course paper on top of the wax to protect the iron and sop up residue).