Floral Burda Maxi Skirt

I've always wanted to make a maxi skirt, but have been worried about looking short.

I don't think I should have been worried! I really, really love this!!!

If you know me in real life, you'll know that I don't walk, I race. I speed walk everywhere. There are running jokes at my school between the teachers and students about my pace. Everyone knows they are expected to keep up with me if they want to talk to me.

This is my ideal maxi skirt with oodles of swish and ease to walk around at my speedy pace without reducing my stride. I saw one of those funny videos recently, which now I can't find, that showed the problems with wearing maxi skirts including walking with a tiny stride, limited by the fabric. I certainly don't have to worry about that in this skirt.

The only change I've had to make to my walking to wear this skirt, is that I have to hold it up at the front when racing up stairs or risk tripping on it and face planting. Not ideal when in public or at home, best just hold the front a little.

This pattern is the Burda Train Maxi skirt pattern 9/2014. As I was feeling frugal when making this skirt, I borrowed this Burda mag from the library and traced it for free. The pattern is interesting and there is more going on than you realize - the drafting and design lines are impressive. The front is relatively straight and wraps around the sides. Then the two back panels create the volume at the back, which is hard to photograph in this fabric, but you can see the folds of fabric right?

As you can see I omitted the back train as clearly it is not a practical design feature. I also didn't sew the large darts on the front panel and instead chose to just tuck the fabric, which I think is a much neater way to add a little shape to the skit.

The fabric is a viscose twill which I ordered online last year, but it never arrived. I whined and carried  on about it so much at my mum's house, as I tend to do when obsessed by something, that she colluded with my sister to re buy it for me. yay!!

I am super pleased with this skirt and have worn it 5 times already. I'm also scheming to make another, once some fabric inspiration hits.

I also made this white tee to wear with it, but I rather like the orange singlet too. The white tee is made with a remnant of super nice white jersey from Tessuti. As with most of my t shirts, I used the Grainline scout pattern and slimmed the sides a little.  I can't remember the last time I owned a plain white t shirt. I wonder how long it will stay that brilliant white shade?

Hope you have a fab week! It's a little cool in Sydney today, so I might try to photograph some of the more Wintery clothes that I've made recently.