The End of the Green

 The three yards of 60" extra thick french terry used for the kiddo's green pants and Husband's green shorts had just enough left to make a long skirt for me--honestly, I had expected Husband to choose pants and therefore leave me with enough fabric for a simple mini skirt, but that didn't happen, and I was so tired of that fabric that I wanted to use as much of it as possible for this last project.

So.

A long skirt it is.

and I am currently very hostile toward it.

I really feel like this fabric would have been better as outerwear--not just a hoodie (or else I would have made one for the kiddo from it), but a full-blown coat.  And sewn by a machine with more power than mine, with its little can motor that is normally just fine.

And still I decided to sew multiple layers in the form of using a pattern for a carpenter skirt, Simplicity 8526 from 1998

Size 16, with a single piece of elastic in the waistband along with a drawstring, both of which are tacked at the center back.

I used the outside pockets from skirt view E

and the asymmetrical leg pockets of pants view A

but there was no way I was going to be able to sew that thick fabric into a flat strip to make the hammer loop, so I dug into the trim stash and used the last bit of webbing from the purse I made last year.  It's...uh...a pop of contrast.

I am not happy with any of the top stitching on this, and I am even less happy that I couldn't serge any of the seam allowances.  Yes, I know, it's purely aesthetic when construction is on a lockstitch machine, but aesthetic improvements might have convinced me to like making this thing.

I initially tried turning the front slit seam allowances twice and stitching, but...too thick, looked horrible inside, and the nature of a front slit meant the inside would be visible from the outside.  So I used some of the bias tape I made randomly when I first got my bias tape maker.

and also to stabilize and neaten the also-highly-visible inner edge of the bottom hem.  It's still really rough and irregular.

But it's done.

(I didn't have enough fabric for back pockets.)

I do want to revisit the idea of a (shorter) cargo skirt that's absolutely loaded with pockets, although in a friendlier fabric like wool or corduroy.  And I am hoping that this skirt will feel, on chilly winter days, like I'm wearing a blanket.  It'll be a while before I can test that, and maybe by then enough time will have passed for me to forget how annoying it was to make.