After the fun of making the City Gym Shorts for my niece I decided to make something else for her.
A few weeks ago I won a copy of Cucito on Instagram. I was so excited as it was so unexpected. It arrived in a lovely parcel and I fell in love with this gorgeous knit skirt (and pretty much every other style in the magazine).
From the stash I grabbed this 2 faced knit. It’s wonderful soft and has spots on one side and stripes on the other, could there be a cooler fabric? The hem and the pocket openings are all bound using cotton bias binding, also from the stash.
I traced out the pattern and didn’t make any adjustments from the instructions apart from attached the elastic in a slightly different manner. No big reason I just like doing elastic in a different way.
It looks adorable, I so want it in my size for the summer! Making kids clothes is fun as it’s so speedy and everything looks cute at tiny sizes.
This is really pretty. You are great at matching fabrics and colours.
Thank you! Her favourite colours are gold, and pink so I hope she will like it, Also wishing I had a bit more of this knit. I’ve only got scraps of it and it’s so lovely and soft.
So sweet! Goodness I’d have kept that gorgeous spotty stripe all to myself – you are very selfless! 🙂
Is it still really selfless if I only had a really small amount that was too little to make myself something from?
Great use of this pattern! Glad you are loving the mag : )
am loving it! thank you so much!
LOVE IT!!!!!!! It is so adorable and I just love those fabrics!!!
do you think anyone would notice if we all started dressing like kids? Why should they get all the cute clothes?
you’ve got one lucky niece – this skirt is adorable and i imagine it will be super comfy to wear.
Thanks, I’m hoping she likes it. She is quite determined about what she wears.
Really really cute! And I love the idea of using woven binding on a knit.
I cannot resist a bit of bias binding action, it’s so easy to add and can make such a statement.
It’s so adorable and those pockets are the cutest! I like the clothes in Cucito magazine, they are very cute!
I wish we could get Cucito all the time, and all the other wonderful magazines from Japan. They really have adorable pieces in them.