I Hate Gathering!

So I'm working on this skirt. Not just any skirt, but a full skirt. The kind with a waistband and the body of it is just a rectangle gathered to fit. So here I am, at my boyfriend's parent's with not much to do and HALF A SKIRT sitting at home waiting to be finished. Literally, half a skirt. The fabric is gooorgeous, which I got as a gift in the March Birthday Swap on Craftster, and of course Todd thinks it's wretchedly ugle.
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I've modeled it off the floral Target teen skirt I posted awhile ago, with the waistband stolen from BurdaStyle's Marie, which I'll also be making soon (with a fabric I have yet to post). I took a trip to Fabricland for appropriate zippers and supplies to help Todd's mom re-do her dining chairs. Yay for sales!
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NOT YAY for gathering. Which is why I only have half a skirt :(
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On a positive note, I found a PERFECT high-waisted pencil skirt pattern UNCUT for FIFTY EFFING CENTS. It's from the early nineties with a couple options, but it's exactly what I wanted for the back part of my Marie skirt (I don't want additional PUFF around my large backside) and I don't have to print out the other pencil skirt pattern I found. I will have to trace it, but that's ok. I think I'd like to buy some muslin to make my tracings onto, instead of taping together sheets of tracing paper. We'll see. One thing at a time.
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