Pencil Skirt No.3 - Disaster

Merrily cracking on with pencil skirt number 3, this time in a lovely coral bike print fabric. I cut all the pieces and darted them months ago, but have only just got round to putting it together.

Disaster no.1 - may have slightly melted a hole in the lining fabric...






However, invisible zip tacked and went in perfectly first time - for the first time ever!

Merrily chugging away on the machine doing everything by memory = so chuffed with myself that I may have burst into a rendition of "They call me Mr Boombastic, say me fantastic". Oh how that joy was shortlived.





1. Forgot that one is not supposed to sew along the top part of the vent. Unsightly!

2. Some swiftly bodged hemming of both lining and main body.

3. Hmm, looks a little snug. Better try it on.

4. AAAAAAAAARGH! I won't treat you to a hideous photo of my chubby bum hanging out of the zip, but I'm sure you can picture it! How has all the room suddenly disappeared from the hips? All by itself. Am I screwing up the lining and that makes it too tight? How can it lose a couple of inches all by itself?

Oof, still feeling sew useless.