What do you get when you mix National Chocolate Cake Day (which is today) with $5 Friday?
Well, if you’re me you get this:
Early this week when I saw that today was Chocolate Cake Day I decided that I wanted to make Grace a little something fun. So while rummaging around my craft room of doom I found a left over scrap of brown fabric and the idea was born.
If you want to make one of these skirts it’s so simple and you hardly need anything.
Supply List:
#1. A piece of fabric long and wide enough for your skirt. (For Gracie’s I cut the piece down to a 12 inch by 32 inch piece.)
#2. Some fat yarn. (I’m sure there is a word for the thick kind of yarn but I don’t knit or crochet and am not familiar with yarn. In fact, I just used some yarn I had left over from making Simon’s spaghetti and meatballs costume awhile back.)
#3. Elastic for the waistband.
The How-To:
#1. Measure your skirt wearer. (I measured Gracie from the waist to the knee and then added 2 inches to give me enough fabric for the elastic waistband casing and for the hem. Then I measured around Gracie’s waist. It was 18 inches and to that I added some extra inches (14) to make the skirt nice and full.)
#2. Cut your fabric.
#3. Hem (ok it’s not really hemming) Finish the bottom edge of your skirt. I just turned mine over about a fourth inch and stitched then repeated.
#4. Lay our fabric out on the table (or the floor like me). Next position your yarn in the loopy design and pin. (Yes, this part is a pain but it really doesn’t take that long.)
#5. Sew right over and along the top of your yarn loops. (Just remember to take out your pins as you go! Trust me, running over pins is not awesome. Not awesome at all.)
#6. Now you are ready to finish up! Fold your skirt right sides together and stitch up the open side.
#7. Make your elastic casing and add your elastic in at the top. (For instructions on how to do this you can look HERE)
All done! And look, now you have a skirt to match your cupcake.
Awesome!
But you still can’t eat chocolate on the rug…even if you give me that face.
Sorry.
Hope you all have a sweet and sugary chocolate cake day!
I intended to.
Just as soon as I finish these:
(Dude, as long as Grace was getting some Hostess Goodness I thought I’d get a little somethin somethin for myself. Yummmmmmmm….donettes……)
***Disclaimer*** This post was not sponsored by Hostess. (Which is why I won’t be sharing any of my treats with you. Sorry. I do, in fact, need all 6 of my donettes. There’s not a donette to spare. I’m sure you’ll understand.)
***Oh! And before anybody asks—Grace is wearing one of her longer tulle slips under this skirt—I wanted her to wear one for fullness and then I let her wear the long one because I liked how the tulle looked sticking out of the bottom. So the white at the bottom is a slip and not part of the skirt.
too cute!! I think it is hte cutiest skirt I have ever seen!!
That is adorable.
So cute! Pinned this to my sewing board, my daughter would definitely love this!! Oh, gave you credit in the pin as well.
ugh..I wish I could sew! This is so stinkin cute
Adorable.
Oh my. That is all kinds of awesome. Great job!
Truly, my dears, only you could make dressing like a cupcake the cutest freaking thing I’ve ever seen. And is it weird that out of all the things in the pictures, Grace is the one I want to gobble up? She is just the cutest little thing.
PS–bulky weight yarn!
So cute! And your model is adorable! If this skirt doesn’t help Hostess stay afloat, I don’t know what will!
That is totally neat you did a great job.
http://richardquilts.blogspot.com
Oh my gosh, my girls each need one! I was OBSESSED with those hostess cupcakes when I was pregnant.
Oh gosh – this is so adorable!!! I love the skirt and your little model so super cute!!
Lovely…. both, the girl and the skirt.
Nana
Clever! Love the idea and the tulle sticking out. Super cute pictures too. 🙂
How lovely!!!
That is a cute skirt. Oh my cuteness! Pinned…
Visiting from TT&J…
Rhonda @ home.made.
Come ON!! This is adorable! Which isn’t a surprise because everything you do is fabulous!! Love!!
So cute and my favorite…Hostess cupcakes-frozen of course!
so sweet!
so sweet!
This is so so cute!!
I host a weekly link party every Friday and if you are interested, I would love you to join!
Ashley
http://www.simplydesigning.blogspot.com
This is one of the cutest skirts I’ve ever seen! Such a great idea!
Adorable. And I don’t blame you about the donettes………..hmm…….I think I need some!
What a gorgeous skirt! I love the white trim swirled around the bottom! Such a cute model too! 🙂
I would love if you came over and linked this project to my weekly Round Tuit party at:
http://jembellish.blogspot.com/
Have a great week!
Jill @ Creating my way to Success
Oh that skirt! Just too darn cute. Great idea!!!!
Found you at Hope Studios
Jen
athomeinthenorthwestblog.com
That is so creatively cute!
Very cute! Nice job. Is it wrong that I want this in my size too? Saw you on c.r.a.f.t.
Oh, STOP. Please! Each of your skirts is cuter than the previous one. How do you do it? Just stumbled on your wonderful site at 5:00 am – you know, getting up before I wake the kids for school so I have some time to get things done…I am a novice sewer and your tutorials are exquisitely clear and easy to follow. My only wish is that I had found it a few years ago when my twin girlies were, say, six, instead of almost-ten-going-on-sixteen. Thank you for all your hard work! And yes, your daughters are ridiculously adorable!