I started sewing again recently, and I wanted to write about this project. It’s the first time I’ve used a Western pattern(!) – for almost 20 years, I’ve been sewing from Japanese patterns that I couldn’t even read until recently! Anyway, I love button-down skirts, so the Estuary Skirt by Sew Liberated was perfect for me.
I chose a viscose twill from Fabric godmother with a 1930s reproduction Japanese print. I fell in love with it as soon as I saw it! I was worried because I hadn’t sewn with anything other than cotton or linen before, but everything turned out fine. And the fabric flows well and has great movement when I walk!
The instructions were pretty simple to follow, but it would have been better if they had stated at the beginning that people with larger hips should do actual functioning buttons instead of fake sewn shut ones. As a result, I had to make buttonholes (I hate making buttonholes and really wanted to avoid it…), and so the placket isn’t interfaced. But aside from that, the design is perfect for me, the waistband is partly elasticated and very comfortable, and I look forward to making lots more of them!
Komorebi is the Japanese word for the shapes of light filtering between the trees. It literally means “light leaking from trees”. I don’t know why, but we don’t really have a word for it in English, even though it’s a beautiful phenomenon that can be seen anywhere in the world…
According to the Japanese version of Wikipedia, there even are different kinds of komorebi, depending on different factors. How interesting! I even learned the words for “crescent moon” and “eclipse”, just from reading that short article. I love Wikipedia!