Layered Skirts!

I have had this book on my bedside table for several months and page through it often for inspiration, but a short while ago I began making some projects inspired from its pages.  The skirts in this post are only one of the 8 or so patterns in this book, and by far my favorite.  But the book really inspired me to combine many fabrics into one piece and showed me how to use trim to add interest and a really cute layered look.  This makes for a project that takes a little longer to put together - ruffling lots of fabric strips and pinning on thin little ribbons of trim is time consuming - but well worth it!  These skirts are some of my favorite completed projects ever!

This book was put together by 2 ladies from Germany and Denmark, I believe, and it has a lot of classic "Eurostyle" children's clothing.  A real pleasure to look through over and over.

Marin and Emma in their completed skirts.  The corduroy on the top layer makes it the perfect weight for a fall skirt.

The top layer is a yoke and overskirt made of corduroy, trimmed at the end with ribbon and ruffled coordinating fabric. For the underskirt I used 2 alternating fabrics and ric-rac trim at the bottom.

A close up shot of the mix-and-match fabrics.  I spend a long time pouring over my fabric stash to see what I think would go well together. I change my mind many times before the final cuts are made!