I was at the thrift store a few weeks ago and they always have the fabric mixed in with the curtain, table clothes and sheets.
I found a cute round table cloth. It was round and had nice birds around it in a wintery theme.
I do not have a round table, I also don't really use table cloths. But I bought it... I had the dream of making it into a circle skirt.
First I ironed it. Ironing is boring and dumb, but important, like soaking yucky dishes to make washing easier, ironing makes sewing easier and the results that much better.
Fold the circle in half, then in half again.
Measure where you want the skirt part of the dress to be (waist? hips?)
Now take that measurement and divide it by 4 THEN subtract an inch. Cut that much off the top of your quartered table cloth. The reason you cut it smaller is the bias of fabric gives it stretch and it will be bigger than you think. If it is too small, then you can cut the hole bigger, but it is hard to make it smaller if you cut too big.
Now, what will the top be? A blouse? A tshirt? I used a tank top.
Get a sharpie or pins or whatever you like to mark fabric with.
Mark the skirt part on the sides and in the middle of the front and middle of the back. Do the same with the top.
You can pin them together or just make sure they match up as you go. Make sure that the too and bottom are both right sides facing right sides and the wrong side facing out.
Get your sewing machine ready!
Because the top I used was knit and the skirt part was woven I wanted to make sure that the seam wouldn't break if it were stretched. You can use a zig zag stitch OR if you have it a straight stretch stitch!
Sew around and around (if you want, I usually do two, I am always worried things will fall apart due to faulty sewing on my part...). Flip it right side out and...
That is it!
