Bytes & Bobbins

Shirt: target | Skirt: loft | belt: J. Crew outlet | Flip Flops: Switch Flops | Bag: target

Last week Meg shared her road trip outfit and discussed the merrits of skirt wearing while driving.  I have say, I’m in complete agreement.  I rarely wear pants on a road trip. I like the freedom of a skirt :) — now I’m not claiming to be mindful of proper skirt ediquette while in the car.  The privacy afforded by speeding down the interstate makes the skirt a must for every road trip, in my opinion.

I made another skirt from this tutorial, which has it’s origins in this skirt tutorial.  I made a few changes.  Firstly, I dropped the width of the fabric pieces at the waist.  I did this because my fabric is a little stiff and so I didn’t want as much gathering at the top.  As I did that, I kept the width at the hem the same, so my pattern pieces had more of a triangular shape.  I dropped the pockets *sigh* only because with the other alterations i knew this skirt would be tighter through the hips and thighs and so I didn’t want to add any bulk underneath, though in retrospect I prob could have put them in if I had had some lining fabric to make them from.

Top: Trifted  |  Skirt:  I made it.  |  Shoes: Kohls

I plan to wear this sweet little skirt on my upcoming vacation to Charleston, SC.  At some point during said vacation I’ll be on a boat and I’ll be wearing this skirt.  The prospect of dressing to suit such an occasion is a exciting.  It makes me feel like Hyacinth Bucket in that episode of Keeping up Appearances that she and Richard were going “yachting.”  So funny.  Further explanation below:

That’s where I went for vacation last week.  It was the camping I spoke of in an earlier post.  All i can say is, the park was beautiful and well maintained.  They helped to make my *first* camping experience a positive one (the weather on the other hand was not so helpful).

When we arrived on Thursday afternoon (about 3pm) we set up camp and ate dinner.  The 8 of us devoured about 5 lbs. of ribs.  In the camping crew were, myself and my brother, along with my husband and his 3 brothers, 1 sister, and mother. Friday morning was the big hike.  The photos above are from said hike.  You can see more on the flickr account here.