The skirt above is similar to E842-807
DISCLAIMER: PLEASE DO NOT ASK ME HOW MY BRAIN WORKS. THE WAY THAT I PUT THIS TOGETHER MADE NO SENSE WHILE I DID IT AND IT MAKES NO SENSE NOW. ASKING FOR CLARIFICATION WILL ONLY RESULT IN MORE CONFUSION.
This pattern is from a special edition of Burda. I believe that it was the last issue of the petite magazine that was put out. I received a letter from GLP or Burda (I can't remember which) telling me that they would no longer produce them and that they would apply the remainder of my subscription to a subscription to the regular Burda magazine. I promptly cancelled it. Now I wish I hadn't.
I liked that this skirt had six seams because more seams usually equal a better fit. In typical "me" fashion, I mistakenly put the back piece on the fold and cut the front piece down the middle, and it went downhill from there.
I used very old black and white houndstooth fabric that my mother had given me. Early on I saw that I had the makings of three holes in my fabric (probably dry rot), so I wasn't too concerned with the outcome and decided to use the skirt as a muslin and experiment by sewing the skirt with exposed serged seams. I serged all of the sides of all of the pieces including the lining, then I changed my mind and decided to serge the seams of the fabric together without using the knife to cut the fabric. THEN I realized that the skirt was far too big, so I stitched a 5/8" seam. This meant that the serged seams were just flapping around out there, so I stitched them down.
I wound up with a zipper on the side back instead of the center back since I had no center back seam. I inserted the first invisible zipper perfectly, and for some reason all of the teeth no longer gripped. I replaced it begrudgingly. Since the zipper was inserted in the side back seam, the right side differs from the left: the left side has three exposed serged seams and the right side has two. I settled on asymmetry. I made a vent at the bottom of that seam and top stitched the edges of the vent and the hem because the thread was not visible on the fabric and the edges were already finished.
Despite all of this, I really like the skirt except for the assymetry. That will not be a problem the next time because I'll be more careful next time. I will cut the front piece on the fold instead of the back, which is what started the domino effect. I might use the denim that I've been itching to get cut into. I will wear this until the holes in the fabric make this impossible.
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