I spent my day wisely today (at Least I think so) but before I go on about that, a little background story 😂
I'm someone that has always been so big on fashion, it's safe to say I was obsessed with style but I had a problem, everytime I saw any piece I wanted, it was hardly my size, I guess I'm smaller and petiter than a regular size 8 ( I'm so convinced 😩).
I was so discouraged and sad about it because I always had style inspirations and sometimes I would even draw it out but anytime I have to purchase a piece of clothing I seldom find my size and if I am lucky enough to find a size close to what I can wear, I have to shape the style out of that piece (literally) and that was honestly depressing.
Facing this challenge was one of the motivation I had to start making my own clothes, even in the midst of challenges and impossibilities I struggled to learn the art.
Well my story is a popular one, I was driven by passion for the art and even though I did have the finances to get professional tutoring, I didn't let that stop me, I started learning from YouTube, watching videos day and night, practicing with my mothers Sewing machine and viola! Here I am.
I wouldn't say I'm a bad ass just yet but I'm definitely getting there, I hope to get professional tutoring sometime in the future but for now, I will keep practicing till I get better.
Back to my sob story about not finding my size of clothes 😒, one of these days I had this style inspiration and I needed an Ankara skirt to bring my idea to reality for those who don't know what this is, it is a normal skirt made from Ankara material ( an African fabric)
So yeah I got my fabric from the market, I didn't bother to get linings because I didn't want them on my skirt so I got my measurements handy and that was about all I needed to make my skirt.
The funny part of this story is that I didn't spend so much time making this, it has to be one of the simplest piece I have made so far.
What I did was spread my fabric on the floor, folded a part of it and then I cut out the front part of my skirt and I repeated the process again but this time I added extra one inch for the zip and this second part is for the back of the skirt.
I proceeded to cut the back side into two equal pieces to enable me insert the zip to the skirt.
The next thing I did was sew each side of the zip to each halves of the back side of my skirt.
Then I joined both the back and front to the skirt together and lastly I bent the hem of the skirt and booommm!!!!
My skirt was ready in less than an hour🥰
I had an amazing day doing what I love, I hope y'all did too.
Thanks for stopping by 😊
Content is entirely mine and images were taken with my Android device.