Sunday was for sewing, and I plowed through this in record time. I put these together with something sort of half way between a french seam and a felled seam. Do not yell at me, I’m not completely sure on the differences between the two, and I’m likely doing a slightly wrong version of both, but I love how it comes out. I even broke out the fancy super thick gold thread meant for denim for the top stitching.

I’m using the selvedge at the bottom of the skirt both to show it off and so I don’t have to hem the bottom. If it turns out I hate it, I can always hem it later. But I generally loathe the giant seam at the bottom of a skirt, and this feels like a way to both avoid it and use as much of the fabric as possible, so for now I’m delighted with it.

The body of the skirt is super simple, just stitch the trapezoidal panels together and turn under each outside edge.

The waistband is a bit more involved, but you basically make four pieces (one 1/3 the waistband, two 1/6 the waistband, one 1/3 the waistband) and join them together leaving three slits (basically giant buttonholes) between them, then attach some sort of tie at the two far ends.

Then, then you make the pocket. All of which I actually did on Sunday…but the pocket deserves its own post, so we’ll do that next time.