Updating an Outfit

I'm seeing a lot of seersucker this spring! I like seersucker alot.  It's a cool fabric that's available in loads of color and seems to scream easy breezy summer days.  I made this outfit back in 2007...

...and recently thought about it again. I was moving clothing around in the closet today and found this suit in the back of it.  As I touched it, I thought it would be great if it had a matching straight skirt. Giving me a new suit for work this summer.

A trip through the fabric collection and I realized that there were still 2 yards of the fabric left. So using my TNT elastic waist skirt pattern, I whipped up an unlined version to go with the jacket.

The skirt took about an hour to make.  It has two side seams, a back seam with a vent and 1" non-roll elastic in the waistline casing. Oh and I pressed the hem up with stitch witchery, no sewing because I didn't want the line of stitching across the bottom. Seriously easy.  I whipped this up while my grandson sat and watched Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the sewing cave with me...y'know the theme song is running through my head now and it will take forever to get out of my mind...anyway, finishing it off means that I now have a great new outfit for work with a minimum amount of effort.

The grandchildren and their Mom are here tonight and tomorrow. Sammy just turned four months...isn't she gorgeous?! She really reminds me of the Little Prince when he was that age...

...and another picture of me from the vault...

Here I am pregnant with my third daughter and her two sisters.

I was 30 wearing a Me-Made maternity dress.

(BTW, Sammy's mother is the baby on the side of the chair!)

Finally, I have pictures of the lavender dress and will share them next.

...as always more later!