skating skirt

That trying to slow down is really not going very well.  I have only walked about 27 miles this week.  And put these skates on to coach two Basic 1 ice skating classes.  The Old Man had only tried to get me to coach for about 15 years.  It was a quiet push but he always wanted me to have another skill to fall back on as a just in case.  He would be pleased.  He would be chortling!  I realized as well that he did not ever wish to go to another funeral of one of his "kids."  The One he talked about was enough for him. 

Funny thing is I can just see him looking over his glasses and smiling at me.  With that smug look.  I would call him on crap and that was the look he would give me when I was right.  I would be getting that look today.

Bert's "kids" have been getting together a couple times a month.  Again, if the Old Man knew this was what it would take to get some of us back on the ice, he would have said, "Here, hold my coffee.  I got this."  His coffee was usually not just coffee unless I brought it to him from home.  But skating a few times a month, I noticed that the skating skirt I wore the most was starting to fall apart. 

Now, I loved the length of this skirt but I never truly liked how transparent it was.  I was going to get some black chiffon and make a new one but I liked the softness of the navy blue metallic lace better.  Soft is always good.  If I could have found the black, I would have bought black.

I laid the old skirt out as a pattern.  Cut.  Hemmed every side.  Three edges were a rolled hem and one was just a simple fold over so I could cover it with a ribbon tie.

It was really simple.  I started the sewing of the skirt just over two hours before the public skate started.  I got there as the skate started.

I like that it is not so transparent.

And it moves well.  This was a really crappy one foot spin I did for the photos.  But it shows the movement of the skirt.  I have enough supplies to make another which I may make up to sell.  

Not too long afer the picture was taken, I tried a sit spin.  A normal sit spin.  My foot said no more!  The sit spin stretch things in the foot too much and my balance was off.  I asked a friend who was there if when she was dealing with the same thing if she could do sit spins.  She said not work.  I bet a camel would have but I did not need to push my foot anymore.