A few weeks ago, me and Phil visited Copenhagen for a few nights. While there, I took the opportunity to get a few photos of this Tilly and the Buttons Clémence Skirt. These photos were taken in the Christianshavn neighbourhood, close to Noma (regularly selected as one of the best restaurants in the world); not that we were eating there, we ate smørrebrød at a nearby (much cheaper) cafe.
The fabric is chambray from my stash, originally purchased from Barry’s. I doodled a cacti design on the front of my skirt using fabric pens from Ikea. I was going to lino print the design but went with fabric pens as a lazy / way faster option. Next time, I might lino print the outline and then fill-in the coloured sections with fabric pens; I always find printing multi-coloured images with lino blocks a bit frustrating as I never manage to line-up the separate colours perfectly.
I actually made the skirt months ago, but it’s been cold so it’s stayed in the wardrobe until recently. The Clémence Skirt is one of the patterns in Tilly’s book, Love at First Stitch. It’s a simple gathered skirt so the book includes instructions to construct the skirt based on your measurements, rather than a paper pattern. It’s dead easy.
This skirt goes with most tops in my wardrobe, so I’ll start putting it to use now that the weather is (sort of) warming up. Using solid coloured fabrics is so practical, it’s just not as exciting at the fabric shopping stage. In fact, even when I did make a solid-coloured skirt I ended up doodling on it. Whoops…
