Panel Skirt

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I made another skirt. Hand-sewn like the "black cat skirt" I made last summer, although I found out that I'm getting a sewing machine for Christmas (yippee!), so that'll hopefully be the last one. No more clumsy needle accidents! Well, I hope...

Anyway, it's a 4-paneled skirt made out of flowered scrap fabric. The skirt came out sort of country-looking, but I managed to Goth it up with my favorite black shirt and some stompy boots. :)


Front and side view:


I can wear it 2 other ways, which I think is kinda neat:


This was my first time attempting an elastic waistband. The fabric came out bunched in one spot. (I can never get the hang of waistbands!) Thankfully, my T-shirt covers it up. But can anyone give me pointers on doing elastic waistbands? I don't want to repeat my mistakes.

I also decoupaged a few Altoids tins with pics from World Wide Retro and some old craft supplies I had lying around. Yay for using scrap supplies! They're terribly cheesy, but I like cheesy things:



P.S. The Marijuana Girl tin is for my friend up north, and no, I don't know if she's going to put bud in it. :)