Since my knee injury, life has slowed down a bit for me. (why do I always have to get literally knocked on my hiney to slow down??) In fact, I meet with an orthopedic surgeon on Wednesday to discuss our next move, since it's been swollen for over a month now with no improvement.   I also am having a minor surgery the first week in July to remove a recurring benign tumor in my hand. No piano playing for a few weeks. Poor me. But I digress...

In the interest of not laying around and feeling sorry for myself too much (and because I am bored bored BORED of looking at homeschooling catalogs and am not ready to order anything yet anyway), my girls and I have pulled out boxes of fabric to play with. We are wearing more skirts than anything else these days--nothing cooler than a light skirt and cute tee to match! We made this in literally an hour the other morning, from the 'simple skirt' pattern you can find here (I can't wait to try the others!).  Tell me this isn't the cutest little model...

Trust me, if you can sew a straight line, you can easily make this skirt. The only complaint from my 8-year-old is that it's too 'straight' for playing. We'll try the A-line next. (Kim, we finally finished using the fabric you sent us a couple of years ago!)