I'm rarely able to justify spending more than a couple dollars per yard for fabric for myself, especially because I have some great discount stores around. With this one being around $10 a yard, I only went for one. I wish I had a lot of it. This severely limited what I could make.
I usually go for full skirts, but since I had so little fabric to work with, I picked a narrow, high waisted pattern. It's the bottom portion of Simplicity 3673. The pattern is out of print now, but I highly recommend it.
You'll notice the skirt isn't all that narrow at the bottom. The fabric doesn't have any stretch at all, so it's very much a "straight skirt" and not a "wiggle skirt." I'd love for it to be more wiggly, but I knew that wouldn't work with this fabric.
I put the zipper in normally, with topstitching. I could have done an invisible zipper, but I'm okay with this style and had a normal zipper on hand.
Because I was working with such a limited amount of fabric, I couldn't cut the back slit extension as one piece with the skirt body. I added some scraps instead and got this little lady peeking out from the slit as a result.
The inside of this is kind of embarrassing. When I make things for other people, I spend a lot of time making sure I do everything right. I don't really do that when making stuff for myself because I'm rarely using "tried and true" patterns and am eager to see a finished product. You'll notice above I made the facing too tight and had to put some vents on the side seams. I could have just remade the facing but it was already top-stitched on when I noticed. If you look closely you'll also notice the darts all go the same way instead of symmetrically towards the zipper. This annoys me quite a bit but again, I wasn't ripping out that top stitching to fix it. Oh well. These are problems that aren't visible at all from the outside so I'm letting them go.
I also made this blouse a couple years ago. If you haven't seen it yet, there's a little more info in a past post.
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