Happy New Year everyone! Hope these first 6 days have been good to you so far.  I've started out the new year with a new sewing room, so-so skirt and a ridonkulous goal (more on that later).  I finished the Colette Beignet this evening, or actually last night since it's technically Sunday @ 2am now.  What can I say I'm a a night owl. 

I'm not really sure how I feel about this skirt.  The fabric is a wide wale corduroy that I got in a mystery bundle at Fabric Mart.  I'm not really crazy about this color.  It's just off.  I wish it was a darker brown. Better than that I wish it was navy blue because that's the color I really wanted to make this skirt in but since I already had this and I'm on a no buy looks like this had to do...sniff..sniff..

This was an intermediate pattern and it proved to be just that to me.  This was my first skirt with an attached lining.  Attaching the lining to the facing was tricky, tricky, tricky!  I cut a size zero and the only alteration I made was to shorten the seam allowance just a tad when sewing the facing/lining to the skirt shell (it was just a tad snug around the waist).  I also omitted the pockets and belt loops.  I originally had the pockets attached but the bulkiness of the corduroy caused the pockets to kind of protrude on my hips. Not a good thing so I took them out.

I had a hell of a time with my buttonholer and my blind hem foot.  It took me two hours to figure out how to even use my blind hem foot then I had to practice, practice, practice.  My sewing machine instructions were pretty vague on how to program the machine for the blind hem food foot mode (omg can you tell I'm hungry, my stomach is literally growling).  I finally figured it out after a lot of cussing and I like the outcome.  I will use this foot more often!  I wish I could say the same about my buttonholer.  If you follow me on instagram you seen just a little peek at what my buttonholer was doing.  I haven't the foggiest of what the problem was...janky buttonhole foot...user stupidity (probably the latter).  I swore I was not going to hand sew 11 buttonholes so I kept on with horrible results.  I ended up using a tiny zigzag stitch to finish out most of my buttonholes.  Let me tell ya they look HORRIBLE.  Luckily my thread blends in pretty well and you can only tell close up.  I'm terrified to ever have to use my buttonhole foot again.

And lastly what the *smurf* happened down here...

Oh and about my ridonkulous goal.  If you follow Karen @ Did You Make That, then you read her post on the 2013 sewlutions jar.  Basically you commented on her blog what your goal was for the year.  She then puts everyone's goals in a jar then at the end of the year we all come back and fess up on whether we accomplished them or not.  Well Miss Shanni Big Pants here said she was going to sew one thing a week. WTH.  I don't even think I thought that through I just started frantically typing.  I just got done saying quality over quantity now I'm going to try this???  Oh well we will see, I won't stress myself out about it.  It will be fun to try though.  I did accomplish it back in September when I made myself a monthly goal of just that but that was only for 4 weeks, we are talking about 52 weeks here - 52 items!!  Oh and they can be either, clothing, accessories or refashions.  Did any of you throw a goal into Karen's Sewlutions jar?

After reading everyone's comments telling me NOT to turn this skirt into a bag I decided to let it sit for a few days and come back to it.  So glad I did.  I was able to fix the uneven hem.  I just simply let out the hem on the side that was shorter.  I let it out as much as I could and it was still off  a tad.  At this point I was unsure what to do so I threw it in the wash while I stewed over it.  Well what do you know after I washed it, it shrunk it up some and it looks almost perfect.  Funny how those things turn out.