After I made the blue corduroy shorts, I still had a lot of that fabric left. I felt like making a long skirt from it would be good.
Then my brain started complicating things: it demanded a center front button placket.
Well, I thought, that still wouldn't be too hard--might even be possible to make without a pattern, just gather the waist into--
"No," the brain said. "It should be an A-line skirt."
Well...OK...I do have an A-line skirt pattern with a center front seam that could be hacked...
Buuut I really didn't want to do that. So, I checked the next JoAnn pattern sale and purchased two possibilities: McCall's 7981 and 7906. 7981 has some non-gathered views that are pretty much what I envisioned, but 7906's pleated (and top stitched!) waist shaping was also really appealing, so I decided to go with that one.
But.
I am still getting a feel for sewing things with waists, and my waist measurement, last time I measured (which was when I was still planning to make this) was somewhere between 16 and 18. The finished waist measurements are printed on the pattern, so I decided to risk things and go with the 16.
At this point, however, I also decided not to jump right in with the corduroy, so I grabbed something from the stash that's not my usual color scheme, but was just the right length that there's not a whole lot of it left over. After a few days of sporadic sewing, I ended up with this
