BANG! The Pop Art Pencil Skirt

I've had this fantastic fabric burning a hole in my stash for some time, and the other night I finally got round doing something with it. It was a very generous gift from my friend Catherine, who spotted it in a window in a fabric shop in Bath (I think...):

I'd toyed with the idea of a full skirt, but I thought it would obscure the print, then I thought maybe a jacket, but I knew I'd hardly ever wear it. I settled on a pencil skirt. Here it is:

 

I used Sew Vera Venus' skirt drafting tutorial, which is really easy to follow - go check it out! And in order not to interrupt that fab pattern, I overlapped the side seams and treated the top curve as a dart, so there was only one seam at the back:

I also added a lapped split at the back:

Note to self: be more careful when placing the patterns in the future so as to avoid phrases like 'Look at me!!' appearing in the middle of your bottom.

The top of the split is finished off with a red arrowhead:

I was so pleased with the way the exposed zip turned out on my Kwik Sew Jacket that I decided to use that technique again on the zip for this skirt to show off the red zip I used:

And to finish it all, I added a light poly lining attached at the waist and hand sewn around the split:

Now I just have to find a suitable event to wear this skirt to - maybe cocktails with the Spoolettes?

See you soon!