Bookworm's Musings

Well, the Sedona Skirt pattern arrived on Wednesday. I cut it out, and then cut the moleskin. I ran into a little trouble here. I accidentally mistook the 45" layout for something that could be cut on folded fabric (don't ask me why, my brain took a short vacation). I therefore cut my 5 yards of moleskin into table-lengths and stacked it, intending to cut all 5 copies at once. Oops. The pieces are asymmetric and must be cut with the fabric all facing up. I ended up with three pieces facing wrong side up. So, I turned the three pieces over and cut two more facing the same way. The diagonal lines will now run in the opposite direction from the pattern. Good thing I had that extra two yards, right? In the end, I was left with two extra upper skirt panels and three extra lower skirt panels. I put them away in a bag. As I amass remnants from other fabrics, I will cut pieces from them, and when I have enough I will put them together to make another skirt. Since moleskin has a lovely, satiny backside, I briefly considered simply alternating front and backside facing forward pieces, but decided not to in the end.
I just finished attaching the lower skirt panels to the upper skirt panels. Now I just need to attach the skirt panels to each other, and do the waistband and the hem.
In other news, I picked up almost a yard of dark blue velvet for just $0.50 on Saturday.