Heeey kids. I’ve missed you!

I have not reneged on my promise to show you how I made my birthday skirt. I made this today:

I shall be spending the next couple of days squeezing in drawing the pattern and writing the steps for the tutorial. Squeeze in, you wonder? Am I really that swamped?

Well… Sort of.

You see, my friends and I started a new blog. It has been keeping me busier than usual and this might continue to be the case until I get a better grasp at managing my time. The new blog is an online magazine of our beloved city, Cebu. The blog is HANGING RICE.

There are three of us who write for the blog. We’ve known each other for ten years. We met when we were hired for our first writing jobs. Cue “Holy guacamole! We’re old!” wails. Ley handles the travel posts. Line writes about food and restaurants. I do the posts on shopping and local handmade goodies. If you’re from this city or you plan to visit, please drop by Hanging Rice! We’re nice.

…and started a new tradition.

I mentioned a few weeks back on Pinterest that the next tutorial to be posted here on my blog will be on a beautiful tabbed skirt similar to those from Burberry Prorsum SS2012. Here is the skirt (in fab colors, yes?) from the collection:

And here is the one I made:

I am really proud of this skirt. I am aware that I should have used heavier fabric but I could not say no to this sea foam goodness. I also could not say to to the fact that this fabric cost me only a little less than $2. You will notice that I didn’t do pleats. In order to make my skirt not very uniform-like, I went with shirring. At this point, I should mention that I live in a Catholic country and almost every school (from elementary to college) require their students to wear uniforms. Most of these uniforms have pleated skirts.

And so I shirred. The back of the waistband is also elasticized. Because the thought of sewing a zipper is enough to shut my brain down.

Why is this a birthday skirt? Because I made it on the eve of my birthday and wore it to birthday dinner. And because I wasn’t planning on sewing the skirt that night, I wasn’t able to take photos for the tutorial. Let’s blame excitement.

No worries, though, I will push through with the tutorial. I am still trying to decide what bed sheet to murder so that I can make another skirt. This is no sacrifice, by the way; we have unused bed sheets because we bought a bigger bed.