{"id":21677,"date":"2026-01-11T23:15:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T22:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=21677"},"modified":"2026-01-20T22:25:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T21:25:24","slug":"daily_3966_-_finished_winter_skirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/01\/11\/daily_3966_-_finished_winter_skirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3966 &#8211; finished winter skirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the title says, I finished the skirt. I now have a warm, sturdy, colourful, pocket-equipped skirt.<\/p>\n<p>This is kind of what I had in mind for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2024\/02\/21\/daily_3290_-_failed_skirt\/\">skirt that I gave up on<\/a> &#8211; an irregular composition of semi-random pieces of fabric. I intentionally let the shape of the fabric pieces guide the design, rather than drawing something and then trying to make the pieces fit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3966_skirt_2.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While at least two of the fabrics had a clear front and reverse side, I decided to ignore that. If the piece fit and the grain was right, then I used it regardless of which way it was facing.<\/p>\n<p>This way I could make the whole skirt with very little waste. I have several larger pieces left over that could become something (throw pillows?) as well as smaller scraps for decoration, patching or applique.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3966_skirt_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the title says, I finished the skirt. I now have a warm, sturdy, colourful, pocket-equipped skirt. This is kind of what I had in mind for the skirt that I gave up on &#8211; an irregular composition of semi-random pieces of fabric. I intentionally let the shape of the fabric pieces guide the design, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,768,785],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-photography-2","category-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21677"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21766,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21677\/revisions\/21766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}