Flying Cranes Skirt for Quilt Market

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Thanks for all the love on my arrow dress, you guys!!! I'm so glad you liked it. Here's another garment I made to wear around in Portland for Quilt Market, a skirt with pockets from my friend Rashida Coleman-Hale's Tsuru line for Cloud9 that's out right now. If you saw all of my Tsuru Geranium Dress posts a couple months ago, so you already know how much I love this line of fabric. Now you'll get to see all of the fun stuff I'm making for myself with the yardage Cloud9 sent me as a thank-you for that collaboration. This one features the "1000 Cranes" print that has been so popular.

Flying Cranes skirt

Update: this skirt was an early prototype for the Cleo Skirt pattern, now available in my shop

Flying Cranes skirt

I made a similar skirt earlier this year in a gorgeous floral print by Liesl Gibson (who I got to see again at Quilt Market this year!! LOVE Liesl; she is such an amazing person). I loved that skirt so much I needed to make another one! This one is less full, as you can see below, but still pretty swingy. It's such a simple design and is so comfortable that I can tell I'm going to be wearing both skirts a ton this summer with tank tops and sandals. The pockets are, in my opinion, what makes this skirt a win. I *heart* pockets so much. The pale pink band on the bottom was a later addition; it was a bit short to begin with, and my legs take up roughly 2/3 of my total height...so it needed a little more length at the bottom in order to be decent.

Flying Cranes skirt

I really didn't intend for the boots and kneesocks to be a part of the ensemble, but it was cold in Michigan a couple days ago when I took these pictures, and I had put on the kneesocks to keep warm, and I put on the boots to take out the trash, and...voila, awesome outfit. So I wore it with kneesocks in Portland this weekend, because it was actually rather cool. Fun, fun!!

Get the Cleo Skirt pattern HERE!