kcw summer, day one: skirts!

oh, the excitement... it's the first ever summer kids clothes week!!


i wasn't sure whether i'd be participating this round, but i suspect you all knew before i did that i couldn't resist. so, we got things started around here with some skirts.

well, really i started with two very cranky girls because monday was supposed to be their first day back to "summer camp" (aka part-time day care) and i left my keys in Nick's car so we were home-bound for the day. K might have cried, "but i look so pretty today!" and of course she did, but i also happen to think she looks pretty every day.

anywhoooo... to make up for my minor terrible egregiously deplorable mistake, i told the girls they could sew. within about five minutes, K had chosen fabrics and designed herself a new skirt (more on that in a few). i also wanted to try out making a kiddo-sized cerisy skirt, so B picked out two fabrics for that.


of course, the adorable pink deer (organic knit from Kitschy Coo) don't hurt!


when you only see half my skirt, it's totally fine! perhaps i just need to encourage that habit the children have of walking right in front of me. on second thought....


and now, for my most favorite skirt, possibly of all time, ever! a simple. elastic-waist skirt designed sewn very nearly all by the hands of this fabulous eight-year-old! i helped with cutting the pieces and i sewed down the waistband to form the elastic channel. but K did all of the pressing, sewing, hemming, and even top-stitched each horizontal seam!

she is so very proud (as she should be!!) and informed me that this skirt will be the perfect thing to wear on the first day of school. you know, since it has things you would use at school on it. like notepads and staples paper clips and letters.


the fabrics for this skirt are all from Type by Julia Rothman for Windham Fabrics that i got from sewn studio. and yes, that is a tumble tee that she is wearing, made up with a fab stripe pique knit from Jo-Ann.

side-note: i had this "fabulous" idea that if i took pictures in the garden, i could just blog about the clothes and then garden all at once. then i realized that in the very middle of a very hot afternoon, those poor beet leaves look really sad. oh, well... i promise that they're going gangbusters and the ones we've already eaten were amazing. this week brought our first ripe tomatoes, and we'll have more than we know what to do with before long. in the way back, you can see the giant squash leaves that are pretty out of control, but not yet bearing any actual squash.

i let the girls take a few photos of the garden after our skirt photos were done. and i was amused to find they had both photographed the same tomato plant. photo by B:

same tomato plant, by K (who is very interested to know, "how do you get it to be blurry in the background?" perhaps it's time to teach her a new trick because i think she nailed that one.):


psst... have you seen the new KCW site that Meg and Dorie have worked so hard putting together? you can see my projects here and my patterns here! get the how-to for adding your own projects here.

happy stitching!