And now…now we hang the skirt for a few days before hemming. This is to let the fabric do whatever stretching and falling out it’s going to do under its own weight before I hem it.

Now I fully admit this is important if you’re making some kinds of skirt. Or if you have some kinds of brain. And if you are making that sort of skirt or have that sort of brain, and you need your hem to be really really really straight, you need to first let it hang, then put it on, then get up on a step stool, and then get a friend to sit on the floor and mark out a level hem for you.

I…I am not making that sort of skirt. Nor do I have that sort of brain. Nor am I subjecting a friend to that experience. I am making a very full wrap skirt that I will sometimes wear with one bit on the front and sometimes wear with a different bit on the front. I deeply do not care if the front of my skirt is a half inch higher than the back. But I do want the fabric to do whatever it’s going to do before I hem it so the fabric doesn’t pucker at the hem over time.

So I’m just going to let it hang until the fabric settles, then hem it straight-ish. Soon. Surely soon. Very soon. Certainly I won’t let it sit there for several weeks until it grabs my attention again. There was frost on the grass this morning I’ll want to wear it any day now. Surely that will provide motivation, even if my brain cannot summon any on its own. Right?