Wrap dancing

Thanks to Leonie from Ragland Guld and her lovely tutorial I have made myself a wrap skirt. It has turned out fabulously.

Fabric was an op-shopped kind of brushed cotton in a riot of oranges, pinks and purples. I lined it with plain red cotton, nothing else was going to contrast well with that floral.

I kept the original width from the tutorial, but made a few other fiddly modifications. I rounded the lower corners.

And added a back bow tie with shop bought bias binding (25mm) that I folded in half and top stitched to create two ties, and then just sewed these into the side seams, hard up against the top edge of the skirt. You have to drop the ties down between the skirt and the lining when you are sewing it all together. I think you know what I mean here. The ties are each 40cm long, in case you were wondering.

When I bought this fabric about two years ago I never imagined that I would end up wearing it!