Tree Skirt Disaster III

The long awaited debut is here my friends! The final steps of my first real sew experience (parts one and two).

Sewing lingo learn #234: a 'cover button' is not a regular button that you simply cover. I realized this after I bought 4 regular buttons and tried to cover them with fabric. Phone calls to 5 fabric/craft stores later, I found the coveted '2.5 inch cover buttons':

Thank you Hancock Fabrics

This was the most fun part of the whole project. Most likely because no sewing was involved.


Newly covered buttons attached to skirt:


All nice and snug:


Ta-da!


All happy in its new home:


And yet another close-up:

Things I did differently from original pattern:

• Used a quilted fabric instead of wool blend felt
• Did not use interfacing (This was the most expensive piece of the project. Lucky for me, Walmart actually takes cut fabric back.)
  

A special thanks to:

• You-tube for endless patience while teaching me what the heck things like: backstitch, cross stitch, edge stitch, cover button, top stitch, machine baste, slip stitch, seam allowance and clip mean in sew lingo.
• My mother in law for lending me her old sewing machine.
• My mother and husband for not allowing me to 'throw the whole stupid project in the trash' no matter how many times I said I was going to.