Half-circle skirt redux

Now, once I finished the half-circle skirt for my daughter, my wife liked it so much that she had to have one herself. In this case she wanted something a heavy, dark fabric. Once again the clearance rack at WalMart came through, producing a medium weight black denim at $1.00 per yard. On a hunch that this might prove popular, I went ahead and bought ten yards. Oof. I forgot that denim is heavy ...

Getting cocky after the success of the pink skirt for my daughter, I tried to take shortcuts on this skirt. Naturally, those shortcuts turned into time sinks that stretched the effort far beyond what it needed. First I cut the waistband too narrow, and didn't have sufficient seam allowance to make a good connection. Then I cut the second waistband 2 inches too short ...

At this point I laid my head on the table, took a deep breath, and broke for lunch.

After lunch everything was much clearer, and we got a proper length waistband put on the skirt. There were further challenges such as the elastic escaping from the pins before getting tacked in place, but we got 'er done.

It turned out well, and in fact we received two compliments the night she wore the skirt for the first time.