Bird On A Wire - Skirt Week 2011

I love to make skirts!  I was thinking about making another batch this summer (last summer I made 5 one week).  Then I remembered coming across an announcement for an event on Craft Hours - Skirt Week 2010.  Unfortunately I saw it after it had passed.  Now that I follow them regularly, I was able to catch the announcement and participate.  Pictured below is my entry in the contest.  I knew I wanted to make it out of a natural colored linen fabric.  And I also planned on trimming the hem with linen bias tape that I cut from a coordinating fabric.  I am really pumped about how it tuned out!  Originally I was going to make the birds sitting in-between two telephone poles, but when I laid it out it just didn't look right.  So I opted for just the "wire".  I also decided to make the birds colorful (they were going to be plain silhouettes

out of the coordinating brown linen).  

Here is collection of photos of some of the skirts I made last summer.  The brown skirt with leaves is similar to my bird skirt.  

I still have a few more ideas that I would like to try and get to before the summer ends.  I may even try and make one tonight so that I will have one more to enter into Skirt Week.