Now that I have my sewing machine back, I’m cookin’ on my new summer wardrobe project! I finished hand-stitching the hem on this skirt Wednesday night.

Yes, this skirt looks suspiciously like this one that I made about a year ago.

I like to think of the original one as the spring/summer version, and the new one as the fall/winter version.

The more I thought about the red piece of fabric that I still had in my stash, the more I thought that this skirt was the best use of that fabric. It wouldn’t make a good top, was probably too heavy for a dress and likely not enough of it for that anyhow. You wouldn’t make pants out of this. And I have gotten SOOOO many compliments on the original version, that I just thought, what they heck, I’ll just make another one of those.

And now I have.

Except that this time I put in an invisible zipper.

Stay tuned — I should have the second version of the vintage dress finished over the weekend!