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Sequin Pencil Skirt

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For today’s Go To Sew Mystery Box challenge project, I tackled the sequins!

And made a skirt…

Of course it’s a pencil skirt…my favorite type of skirt ever. 馃檪

And look at this fabric!…oooh preeety. The little girl in me squealed with happiness when I saw this in the mystery box.

The sequin fabric is actually knit which simplified things for this skirt quite nicely.

I just used my knit pencil skirt tutorial, found HERE, and used the 2 inch wide elastic (also in the mystery box) for the waistband. I used the first waistband method listed in the tutorial which has you tuck the elastic under for a seamless look.

I was hesitant to put the sequins through my serger. It is pretty rough to cut and sew. So, I stuck with a zig zag stitch and sewed 聽s l o w , which worked well.

The fabric shed like nobody’s business, but it seemed to mostly stay intact despite all the shedding. 聽A few bigger chunks of sequins came off during the sewing part which I easily hand sewed back on with invisible thread.

Because I already knew my measurements for the knit skirt and there was no hemming (not needed or desired even), this project took me 15 minutes tops!

Gotta love that.

I suppose I could have added a lining to it, because it is a bit see through up close, but I simply wore a black slip underneath and called it good.

After all, as much fun as it is, I probably won’t wear it more than a few times.

But it IS really fun to wear. 馃檪

I wore it to my brother’s wedding banquet in Hong Kong in fact.

It fit right in with all those shiny buildings. 馃檪

It was hard to find a top to go with this skirt, but I finally found a chiffon blouse at a small shop in Hong Kong that worked (almost) perfect. It is a blouse with a lot of body at the bottom, so when tucked in, it bulges at the waist a bit. Unfortunately the sequin fabric emphasized that. I promise you I sucked it in almost the whole night. 馃檪 ha…

I also shed little bits of sequins wherever I went. Not near as much as when I was sewing it, but I left a couple of little tokens to remember me by wherever I sat. 馃檪

Andrea, the mastermind behind Go To Sew聽and this mystery box challenge, sourced this fabric from the LA Fabric District, but I found similar stuff here on Ebay. (I am not sure how long that link will be good since it’s Ebay)

I have plans to wear this skirt to at least one more event. I might dress it down with a t-shirt and sneakers. Can you guess which conference I plan to wear it to?

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  6. So simple to make BUT the fabric makes ALL the difference! I tought sewing with that kind of fabric was very very difficult! thanks for posting this

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  8. Thank you Mie and Inese!

    Jen – totally!

    Melissa – Yep! 馃槈

    Lizzy – it makes a crunchy sound and you have to go slow, but other than that it's not too tricky at all. I just sewed right through the sequins.

    Heather – thanks!

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  14. Love it!
    I made a dress, partly of the exact same fabric, a few years ago, and after a wearing it a few times, the fabric stretched LOTS so it's a bit too big for me now, alas.

    And yeah, I know about leaving sequins or parts of them literally everywhere…

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