Sweet summer-time!

So I have a little story. So in my last post I told you that hubby and I got gym memberships. I have never been to a gym in my life but we decided together that we needed to go. So the very first day of working out we both do our thing (he does weights, while I do the treadmill and elliptical) and then we go into the sauna room. For those of you that don't know, the sauna is a small room that is 156 degrees and is supposed to get rid off the impurities in your body by basically sweating your tail off. We go in and we are the only ones in there until this extremely buff man come in wearing a full on sweat suit from head to toe. He looked like he was wrapped in aluminum foil! Anyway he sits by me and starts doing crunches.....I am literally barely making it just sitting in this room and he is doing crunches. Then he suddenly stops and takes his arm out of his suit and squeezes his sleeve to drain the sweat out into the drain in the middle of the room! Right in front of us squeezing the sweat out of his suit! I guess this is a normal thing that people do at the gym, I don't know but it was so gross!

Anyway my newest project is a super cute summer skirt. Knowing me I will definitely be wearing it in the winter too because I think it is just too cute to sit in a closet for 6 months. I made this skirt with pockets though! And let me tell you, nothing boosts your confidence like making a skirt with pockets! 

First I cut 2 rectangles of the desired length, which for me is about 20 inches because the gives me plenty of mess up room and if the skirt ends up too long, you can always just hem it up some more. 

Then, I zig-zag stick the edges so they don't fray.

Then I cut out my pockets with my left-over fabric. I made my pockets the same material of my skirt but I have seen many cute skirts with different colors in the pockets. When you make your pockets you trace your hand around the fabric and cut out 4 of that shape. You want to make sure that you make them bigger than your hand. My first pockets were way too small after I sewed then the my skirt and I ended up having to rip the seams and make new pockets. 

Then I sewed my pockets with the right sides facing onto my rectangles a little above the halfway point.   First, you just sew the straight end of the pocket to the rectangle. After you have done that for all 4 pockets, you then sew both rectangles together, going around the pocket shapes. This can be tricky if you try to go too fast file moving around the curves of the pockets. 

The pockets should look like this inside out.

After that I turned my dress inside out to check the pockets and then I made a casing for the elastic, fed the elastic through with a safety pin, and sewed the elastic together by hand, and then finished by sewing the casing shut.

My finished summer-time skirt!

And with the pockets out!

I wish I had taken more pictures but the bachelorette was on... 

Hope you enjoyed my tutorial, also I must say that my hubby and I have been married for 6 months :) Congrats to us!

Thanks for coming to my blog!