Grayyyyyyyy, revisited

 So about a year ago, I made this

with the intent of wearing it as a layering piece.  However, I immediately realized that it was just too long, and I didn't wanna deal with shortening the skirt.

So.

 

It hung in my closet for the intervening year, with me poking at it and trying to think of quick ways to shorten the skirt.  I had been leaning toward horizontal pin tucks, which is a historical way to shorten skirts, but, ugh, did I not want to deal with trying to keep them straight around this large diameter and on this unpleasant-to-sew synthetic knit.  And since it had been so unpleasant to even just gather, I didn't want to cut off the skirt at the waist line and re-gather and re-sew.

And then, a few weeks ago, it finally clicked that I didn't need the bodice to be that long.  I think my original reasoning was that the dropped waist meant there wouldn't be a lot of gathered layers in the same place if I wore this under one of those high-waist dresses I make so often.

It would, however, be so much easier to shorten the whole thing by cutting just above the waist seam, cutting a few inches off of the bodice, then sewing the skirt to the new bodice edge.

I finally did that the other day

(The fabric is still highly unpleasant to work with.)

We had a run of fairly warm weather after I finished the alteration, but there's a cold front going through today and I plan to wear this tomorrow.  Finally.