YAY! IT'S DONE!!!!

I got my gathered skirt done! YAY!!!! It would have been done much sooner if I hadn't gone for a week to Toddalicious's parent's house (though I did crochet a scarf while there out of Mrs. B's scrap wools, which I left there). So, TADAAA!!!!
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It ended up too big, so I took a bite out of the side where the zipper is (which required ripping out the zipper, YAY!). It's STILL too big, but thankfully not by much. I used the waistband from BurdaStyle's Marie, and obviously I am not a size 40 if it's so damn huge. There must be 2 inches of ease built into the bloody thing!!!! So when I make Marie in my as-yet-undisclosed-fabric, I'll try 38 and see what happens (I think I need to do more test-fittings, LOL!).
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In other news, I finished my patching on my poor pants. These jeans have been with me since... grade 10??? So I was 15 or 16, and now I'm 25. And I bought them at a second-hand shop. Yeah. So the knees decided to start giving out and I was slowly patching each new tear as it appeared. For awhile I was wandering around with the latest patch only half-attached. Whatever, the landlady thinks they're adorable, and now they look adorable plus finished :P
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Another pair of jeans that I've had just as long is also ripping out. I'm going to deal with them differently though. I'd like to take apart the legs and apply a seam-to-seam piece of fabric at the knees. Maybe in brown denim, maybe pink denim, maybe some denim-backed quilting cotton. We'll see.