Sew tiny

This is my third attempt at making a skirt for the daughter of a skating friend. The daughter is fourteen but very tiny, not just slender but child-sized tiny. I didn’t have my tape measure with me and so eyeballed the first skirt, a child’s size 5. That didn’t look right (never showed it to her) so I adjusted the pattern and cut a six. Unfortunately that one didn’t fit either but I had brought my tape measure with me. The girl’s waist was 22-inches.

The boy-leg pants and attached skirt, fuchsia pink, are of

Lycra. The overskirt is from JoAnn Fabric’s Halloween
collection this year.

The pattern I used for this skirt is McCall’s 6159, girls size 8 (waist 23 ½, hips 28). I used the legging pattern, piece E, cutting it off about 3-inches from the crotch. I drew the skirt pattern by hand. I’m so impatient when it comes to cutting out patterns, especially if I’m going to customize them anyway; it’s faster to draw one than to hunt for one in my collection.