Denim skirt

I'd been wanting a denim skirt for ages and tbh if I'd been able to find one in a shop that ticked all the right boxes (not stretch denim, longer length - I was flexible about style - and that actually fitted) I'd have bought one.  I find now that I don't enjoy clothes shopping in shops if I have a particular purchase in mind.  If I look at my few shop bought purchases over the last few years (other than things like tights) they have tended to be things I've either seen online that other people have bought, or that I've walked past in a shop and thought WOW (coats mainly...)

So, anyway, back to this skirt.  Since I already had the fabric to hand (I had won 2m of denim in the SewBrum raffle three years ago) I decided to make one using a vintage pattern which had a skirt option

and actually cut the fabric out in May last year.  I don't remember now why I didn't get it finished at that point - possibly because it's quite heavy denim and I thought I probably wouldn't wear it during warm weather.

However, with denim-skirt-wearing weather approaching this year I decided it was high time to sew it up.  It came together easily, I've worn it a lot and since made another one.

Right, that's quite enough blogging for one weekend!  I've caught up all my projects up until the end of August, so three months done, three more to go...