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Well, I finally got around to making the asymmetrical skirt on the front cover.

asymetrical-skirt

It’s worked out a little tighter around the hips and loose around the waist than I would have liked but it is very wearable and I like it.  The skirt is quite formal, in a cute, quirky sort of way, and it will probably be a staple I turn to when I have presentations or lectures to give.

This was actually my second attempt at making it because initially I tried before the corrections to the pattern and instructions came out and I got myself into a pickle.  So if you are going to make it I suggest you go to the magazine’s website and look up the corrections.  I found the skirt a fiddle to make but once I got the pattern right it was easy enough.  And I learnt how to use the automatic button hole stitch on my machine!  I’m still al little wary of buttons so when I wore this for the first time (dinner with Rs sister and boyf in Sheffield) I made sure I took with me a safety pin in case the worst should happen and a button fell off.  It didn’t.  All the buttons are holding true.

The second issue of Stitch is out now and hopefully my copy is flying its way across the sea to me right now.