The Mad Person-Who-Stitches: Tiered Ruffled Skirt With Dinosaurs

 

I had 1.0 yard of green dinosaur fabric, 0.5 yard of bones dinosaurs fabric, and about 1.25 yards of purple fabric.  I made gathered ruffles, but it didn't turn out as ruffly as I had hoped.  Now I'm second-guessing myself and thinking I should have tried to finagle circular ruffles.  But I'm not sure I would have had enough fabric.

I made the purple top kind of like a collar, with two layers of fabric.  The elastic got a pocket at the top edge.  Then I pressed the lower edges 5/8 inch under, tucked the upper two ruffles plus lining to which lower ruffle is stitched inside the purple, and sewed everything together.  I thought it would be a good way to make all the seams tidy.  And it did make them tidy:

inside join of purple top to dino ruffles

sideseam for top layer

But all the layers had different circumferences, and it was slow, exasperating work to get them gathered to the same circumference and pinned together without little swags escaping from the seam line.  Next time I need to make a ruffled skirt, I will leave the layers as strips, gather and pin and stitch all the layers together as a trapezoid, and only at the last stitch up a side seam to turn the trapezoid into a truncated cone (skirt). 

But it has purple and ruffles and dinosaurs, and I think overall it's a success.  I hope the person who commissioned it will like it!

Apple Pie With Dinosaurs

I borrowed Elisheba's dinosaur rolling pin:

More contrast needed.  Food coloring in some form is indicated.

Remember, dinosaurs are extinct in large part because they didn't have a space program. 

Books I Must Read, and that Right Soon

T. Rex and the Crater of DOOM! 

Dinosaurs in Space and Dinosaur Porn

We ran out of pie, a greatly horrific event.  Fortunately, we are in possession of dinosaur cookie cutters.  The obvious thing to create is an apple pie adorned with space dinosaurs.  

This naturally turned into a mass extinction event, because there isn't any oxygen in space.  

The other pie turned into dinosaur porn.  These things happen.

In Which Another One Bites the Dust

The New York City opera is closing.  This is just sad.  Also, now I will probably never be able to see the operatic saga of Anna Nicole Smith, which sounds fantastic.  It's not like we can just stick opera in a museum somewhere and go look at it at our leisure.

In happier news, there is a dinosaur on the international space station.

Also, as one of my darling readers informed me, Terminator 2 is being re imagined as a Shakespeare compilation.

But I am still not going to be able to watch Anna Nicole operatically.