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| quiltin mama |
Posted - Mar 28 2010 : 1:02:20 PM
While I would love to make all my skirts, I hardly have the time for it right now. So my question is where do you buy your skirts from?
I live in a very rural area so the internet is my friend when it comes to shopping.
I personally like longer skirts made of cotton or denim. And I really love elastic waste bands! Super easy on an off. I seem to have a difficult time though finding skirts that I like that I can afford. While there may be plenty of pretty $75 skirts out there, I just can't pay that much!
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| quiltin mama |
Posted - Apr 09 2010 : 8:34:17 PM
Annika- thank you (again) so much for that link, I made the skirt! And I like how it turned out. It was SUPER easy to make too! Love it! I blogged about it here:
http://mountainhomequilts.blogspot.com/2010/04/skirt-success.html
Thanks again!
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| Catherine |
Posted - Apr 08 2010 : 12:23:37 PM
I find lots of pretty skirts at thrift stores in my area.
I do love the pattern Annika shared the link for ... would be so pretty with some springy print fabrics. Maybe a project for the coming days!
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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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| Ms. Treadle |
Posted - Apr 07 2010 : 1:36:05 PM
My daughter likes long, full skirts but she likes pockets too. We get either too short skirts or jeans at Goodwill and cut them off a couple of inches below the pockets and add cotton tiers to them. She just made one last week and I think it's her new favorite.
Blessings,
Leigh-Ann
The only place where housework comes before needlework is in the dictionary. ~Mary Kurtz
Farmgirl Sister # 1178
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| fiddlegirl89 |
Posted - Mar 31 2010 : 3:13:28 PM
I make circles, half-circles, and gored skirts for ladies sometimes. I've made my mom a couple of plain skirts with elastic waists, and she loves those. You can email me for more info if you like! I love sewing, and I've got too many skirts as it is!!!
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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Mar 29 2010 : 12:44:57 PM
You are welcome Heather! IF I find more, I will send the site addresses along! I pledged to stop any personal shopping through Lent, but when that is over, I am going to buy some of your dishcloths! They look wonderful.
Farmgirl Sister # 31
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| solilly |
Posted - Mar 29 2010 : 12:35:48 PM
Thrift stores work. Mostly I try and make them. Lilly 
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| Annika |
Posted - Mar 29 2010 : 12:31:16 PM
Besides long dresses, that's what I wear most of the time =)
Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
Palouse Prairie Girls Chapter
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~Leonardo DaVinci
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| Lainey |
Posted - Mar 29 2010 : 12:28:36 PM
Annika, I love that skirt. That's the kind I like as well as the broomstick kind.
Farmgirl Sister #25
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| quiltin mama |
Posted - Mar 29 2010 : 11:33:07 AM
Our goodwill is pretty bad and super small- I wish it were larger. If I had the time I could travel to go to better ones but everything is pretty much 1.5-2hrs away!
Annika- that skirt is adorable and it DOES look super easy! Maybe I'll try when my parents are up visiting and I have a little extra time! Thanks for the link!
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| dutchy |
Posted - Mar 29 2010 : 04:31:19 AM
Annika, I made one of those last year. I used a vintage white bedsheet that my grandparents had brought back from Canada in the early 60's LOVE it and will wear if often again this summer. The pattern is SO easy to do :)
Hugs from Marian/Dutchy, a farmgirl from the Netherlands :)
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| Annika |
Posted - Mar 29 2010 : 12:52:04 AM
http://www.jcarolinecreative.com/Merchant2/peasantskirt_inst.html
Heather this skirt is cute and super easy to make, I hope that this helps 
Annika
Farmgirl & sister #13
Palouse Prairie Girls Chapter
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http://prairiegirlsjournal.blogspot.com/
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~Leonardo DaVinci
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| Roxy7 |
Posted - Mar 28 2010 : 8:20:09 PM
I have gotten some really cute broomstick type skirts at Walmart. They were inexpensive and wash and wear well. I even wore one today to Palm Sunday Mass. |
| farmmilkmama |
Posted - Mar 28 2010 : 6:42:26 PM
Goodwill and Salvation Army all the way! That's where all my skirts come from (that I don't make). :)
--* FarmMilkMama *--
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Be yourself.
Everyone else is already taken.
-Oscar Wilde
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| maggie14 |
Posted - Mar 28 2010 : 2:45:23 PM
I get most of mine from Goodwill. lol Sometimes they have really cute farmgirlish ones. :)
Hugs,
Channah
Farmgirl sister #1219
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| quiltin mama |
Posted - Mar 28 2010 : 2:06:13 PM
Jeannie,
Thank you so very much! I just checked out Katie's website and I love everything there! Plus, it's affordable! I really appreciate your suggestion. :)
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| jpbluesky |
Posted - Mar 28 2010 : 1:18:56 PM
I find some on Ebay, and recently got a broomstick skirt for 5.99! Also, there are some sites that sell them.....Katie's Mercantile and Modest Apparel USA. I am with you, when the weather is cool enough I only wear skirts.
Farmgirl Sister # 31
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