cottington's so crafty: essex yarn dyed metallic rainbow

I sure waited until the last minute to sew up this Halloween version of the Little Lizard King circle skirt, City Lights. I kept reminding myself, kept putting it off, thinking the tulle would torture me. I bought the fabric a few weeks ago, and YIKES, Halloween is in 5 days, and I finished the dress only last night. It is super cute, though.

Clearly, this is a pretty basic circle skirt pattern, and there is a sash option that I didn't include, though part of me was sad at the last LAST minute about not doing so. Then I got over it, aha. It was late. I know people can do the math and magically make a circle skirt, but I'm lazy and get weird about figuring things out on my own.

Camden has been desperate for more sparkly/metallic in her life, so, I doubled it up - combining some glittery tulle from Joann Fabrics and some Robert Kaufman Essex Yarn Dyed Metallic Rainbow from Modern Domestic. It's a great combination, though the metallic doesn't really come across in photos. The metallic also doesn't include any purple, but it all works out well enough.

I could have gone with tulle UNDER the skirt, but the whole idea was something sheer swishing about over the solid layer. I wasn't sure whether or not to hem the tulle, but I did - and was bummed I didn't have matching thread, somehow. I wanted the colors of the skirt to pop, not the threads. It works, and nobody will care, but I do, naturally.

The front waistband is flat, and the back is elasticized, which I always like, though I definitely waisted a couple inches of elastic, because I was sewing late and wasn't able to test the fit on Camden until this morning.

The directions for the pattern seem great, though I mostly just sewed it up without using them, which is probably par for the course for anyone sewing this pattern. I printed out the size 8 and 9/10, though I ended up cutting the larger size...and I wish I had bothered to lengthen it, for no real reason, of course - just to make it last longer.