Vintage Creepy Toy Skirt

Remember that disturbing vintage toy print I thrifted on my birthday? I used it!  After having it in my stash for less than a month!  (...barely...)

(Whoo, flashback to my early childhood in the late 1970s.  How did people think pupil-less eyes with what appear to be black sclera was an endearing look?)

No patterns involved, just a bunch of rectangles.  The bottom hem is formed by sewing on the solid piece, pressing up the edge, then folding the whole thing up inside and stitching it in the ditch where it meets the print, so no cut edges are visible.

And the salmony solid of similar texture that had been in the stash for untold years worked out well enough as a match for the print's pink, considering that it's another thrift find.  And I was able to finagle things so that the print placement on the front is exactly the same as the print placement on the back.  So...uh..."front" and "back" here are moot (in all senses of the word.)

The skirt is softly pleated to the waistband, and the lining (also thrifted--pretty sure it was a sheet from which I once scavenged some nice wide eyelet) is gathered to fit the waistband.

It's a bit above knee-length, and I can't imagine wearing it with anything but a black shirt and black tights and black shoes and perhaps a black cardigan, weather permitting. (Oh, please, cardigan weather, please come back.)

...plotting the world's demise...