{"id":1,"date":"2010-06-22T09:21:06","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T09:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eponases.com\/blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2015-04-12T21:07:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T21:07:25","slug":"rainbow-skirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eponases.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/rainbow-skirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Patchwork skirt \/ Rainbow skirt"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found my inspiration for this skirt in this awesome blog by Megan: http:\/\/craftyintentions.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/and-sewn-into-seams-were-forty-one.html<\/a><\/p>\n

My skirt is a bit different from hers, but the idea is similar.<\/p>\n

\"Voluminous<\/a><\/p>\n

I started with lots of pieces of interestingly patterned and coloured fabric which I chopped into squares and then stitched into strips.<\/p>\n

The waistband was made by bending the cloth over and stitching it, making a “little channel” through which the belt is passed. i.e. It’s a gathered belt which fits almost any size of waist.<\/p>\n

\"All<\/a><\/p>\n

As I am 1.55 m tall (5’1″), the skirt needed to be 110 cm long (43″). So each little “patch” is 13 x 13 cm (5.1″ square), with 1.5 cm (0.6″) margin included for stitching.<\/p>\n

\"All<\/a><\/p>\n

I had 9 tiers of differently colored patches. Each tier is 1\u00bd times longer than the previous (more or less):<\/p>\n

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  1. White layer – 10cm (4″) wide belt<\/li>\n
  2. Pink tier – 12 patches<\/li>\n
  3. Red tier – 18 patches<\/li>\n
  4. Orange tier – 27 patches<\/li>\n
  5. Yellow – 44<\/li>\n
  6. Light Green – 66<\/li>\n
  7. Dark Green – 103<\/li>\n
  8. Light Aqua – 155<\/li>\n
  9. Light Blue – 233<\/li>\n
  10. Dark Blue – 350<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \"Lenght\"<\/a><\/p>\n

    So the next thing was to ruffle it and stich the layers together. I waited for a nice cool evening (the temperature per day reached 36C \/ 97F) and started my epic journey. So if you have been following – the dark blue line is 35m (\u00ad~115 ft) long, and the light blue 23m and a bit (~75 ft).<\/p>\n

    \"Left<\/a><\/p>\n

    Here is the result – before the thread end tying, which took me 3 days to complete.<\/p>\n

    \"Me<\/a><\/p>\n

    Me and \u0160uriks (the dog) a month after starting the project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I found my inspiration for this skirt in this awesome blog by Megan: http:\/\/craftyintentions.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/and-sewn-into-seams-were-forty-one.html My skirt is a bit different from hers, but the idea is similar. I started with lots of pieces of...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,1,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eponases.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eponases.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eponases.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eponases.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eponases.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/www.eponases.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"https:\/\/www.eponases.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eponases.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eponases.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eponases.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eponases.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}