Ikat Skirt

Skirt made by Tracey

Pattern, Marfy 3094

Fabric, Ikat Cotton from Mood Fabrics

Photography by Santiago Vanegas

Making this skirt kept me up at night!  Those triple pockets gave me such a headache.  As many of you know, Marfy does not include instructions with their patterns.  They assume you know what you are doing.  Ha!  I did not know what the heck I was doing with this one.  I was obsessed with how to construct this skirt and more than any other project I’ve done, the choices I made early on, lead me to only one or sometimes no good choice at the end.  With every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.  To say the least!!  I think I have just about every type of finishing on the inside of this thing.  Slowly but surely, it started to come together, and once I had the triple pockets all functioning as true pockets, I could sleep much better.  I took a lot of care with cutting the fabric.  I knew it would be close to impossible to match the design of the fabric exactly because there are so many asymmetrical pieces coming together and shifting grainlines, but I figured that I could at least preserve the turquoise and coral bands of color in a linear way.  And I’m proud of how it turned out.  Oh, yeah, and I also tweaked the design a bit.  The original design had a sharper angle on one side of the wrap.  I curved it to give it more of a tulip hem.

Enjoy your week, everyone.  See you next time.