Debate on: Skirts (have you ever made one, would you wear

VictoiseC · 10-24-2005, 04:35 PM

one?

Hi! Browsing through the winter clothes at my local Filene's basement (and these are discount prices) I just cannot be laying out $80 for a good skirt and don't wan't a cheaply made $29 skirt well, maybe one...) so it occurred to me

with all the yarn in my yarn stash, why not MAKE A SKIRT OR TWO? I'm wondering if anybody here has? It's a challenge coz if you aren't like, a size 6, it's gonna make you look BIG.

I like these two patterns so far but one is in cotton.

http://knitty.com/ISSUEfall04/PATTskatingqueen.html

http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEsummer03/PATTeyelet.html

The trick is to not have it too tight esp around the hips but more drapey. Anyone seen any other interesting skirt patterns?

Ingrid · 10-24-2005, 09:47 PM

http://www.interweave.com/knit/inter...irtyskirty.pdf

http://www.interweave.com/knit/proje...ing_detail.asp

The first one is a pattern, the second is a picture, also from IK.

VictoiseC · 10-24-2005, 10:07 PM

Oh wow Ingrid! I LOVE the second skirt! That's more like what I was thinking of but couldn't find, a bit swingy and not too tight. The first one would make me look like a sausage I think.

Shoot, I got one issue of Interweave free and didn't subscribe, now I want it. hmmmmmm

Ingrid · 10-24-2005, 10:37 PM

All I found is the picture. I tried to find out what issue it's in, but the picture was attached to a techniques page. I'll look through the IK's I have and see if it happens to be in any of them. You can have the pattern if it's in one of them.

Ingrid · 10-24-2005, 10:50 PM

I don't have the pattern for that one in my few copies of IK, but here are some more

http://www.knittingpatterncentral.co...ses_skirts.php

Sara · 10-25-2005, 02:16 AM

Even when I had a body that could stop a truck (where did that come from? is it a malaprop?), I couldn't wear knits on my derriere. They hung funny and made me look lumpy. It was weird. Maybe it was just shades of my future showing up in the mirror... :rollseyes:

rebecca · 10-25-2005, 02:49 AM

Knitty Gritty did a show a few weeks ago with very nice skirts :D

VictoiseC · 10-25-2005, 03:13 PM

Originally Posted by Sara

Even when I had a body that could stop a truck :rollseyes:

Ha, I know whatcha mean! Well, even though I lost weight I put some back on but I'm sick of wearing JEANS all the time so I figure I'll knit a loose type skirt and wear it with big sweaters and boots.
Nothing wrong with a luftig bottom anyhow! l

Thanks again Ingrid for looking through your magazines, I think it's in the new issue and will look when I get to the bookstore. I like that one better than the ones at Patterncentral.

feministmama · 10-25-2005, 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by Victoise

Nothing wrong with a luftig bottom anyhow! l

You know what popped into my head? "Big bottom! We got 'em! Can't leave this beeeehiiiiiyiiind!"

VictoiseC · 10-25-2005, 09:12 PM

that's TOO CUTE !!!!