Finished Project: Summer Ginger Skirt

Morning everyone! Are you all glad it's the weekend?

I've got another finished project for you today. This time it's a Colette Ginger skirt. This is technically a refashion of a previous  self-stitched project. Back in May, during the MMM '12 project, I made myself a gathered skirt out of some lovely bright, summery cotton from Frumble Fabrics.

Gathered Skirt

There was nothing wrong with the make itself, but I've hardly worn this skirt because I just don't feel like it really flatters my figure overly much. I'm not sure whether some of this is down to the thickness of the cotton I used for the gathered skirt, as it is quite a thick cotton or whether it's just the style, but gathered skirts (like on the Cambie Dress) look fine on me when attached to a dress bodice.

So anyway, since the fabric was just so pretty and it seemed silly to have something in my wardrobe I just didn't wear, I decided to refashion it into something else. I originally thought about using the Sewaholic Hollyburn skirt pattern but I didn't have enough fabric for that so I went with the Colette Ginger pattern instead, which used up more or less every scrap of this fabric.

Nothing much else to report really. I went with the straight waistband on this make as the shaped waistbands sit a little too high for my relatively short waist and lined it with a polyester lining.

Have a good weekend everyone!