It’s not Clare’s birthday until January.  But this skirt design is called the Birthday Girl Skirt.

This worked up very quickly – I think it took around a week or ten days of social crochet (that is crocheting at functions or when visiting friends, in contrast to commuter crochet, which is on the train/tram). The yarn is Bendigo Woollen Mills cotton 8ply, in the colour New Ochre.

It’s a highly customisable pattern, and is worked from the waistband down. Doris Chan gives suggestions throughout the pattern of where you might want to alter things. I really do enjoy working from such comprehensive instructions. The stitch diagrams really came in handy too.

Unsurprisingly, Stella now wants one. Ravelled here.