So, in April, I made a wool bias slip dress that...did not go well. A few weeks later, I fixed the problems. Not blogged: finding that I hadn't managed to avoid all the moth holes, and clumsily mending one on the upper back. Yeah, I didn't wear it much.
I finally decided I would go ahead and turn it into a skirt, but it took me days between making that decision, making the decision on how I'd do it, making the cuts to do it, and then actually doing it.
But I did do it!
I used New Look 6843 to determine where to cut the waist level, then use the waistband from that pattern to cut a piece above that. I cut through everything at once, so the lining was wider than it should have been, due to having been raised by the facing alteration I'd done to the slip dress. I used the skirt shell as a pattern to make the lining narrower, then basted the skirt to the lining at the cut edge.
That edge was more than generous enough to slip over my hips, so I skipped the earlier plan of adding a back seam and zipper and went with elastic. I cut the strip of slip dress that had become the waistband, then sewed it together to create a center back seam; I left a gap in one bit so I could later insert the elastic there. I sewed the waistband to the inside of the skirt, right side of the band to the right side of the lining, then flipped it up and around, folding the edge in and edge stitching through all layers. Nope, I did not press anything. It didn't go too badly without that step.
I then inserted the elastic and probably spent more time trying to untwist it inside the waistband than I did on any actual other part of this conversion process.
The pockets are still there and they're still kind of low. They don't, however, gap strangely over my hips like other A-line skirts I've attempted to add pockets to, so it's fine.
And of course this skirt goes nicely with the vest I made from the same fabric.
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