This is what I started with:
I sewed the smaller pieces to either side of each large piece, and then sewed that all together on one side. I hemmed the ends of the long piece and then folded the sides in a bit and then folded it in half, right side out, and ironed it down, making a kind of a bias tape. I pinned it to the end of the skirt piece and then started making inch wide pleats and ironing them in place until I just had 1.5 inches of overhang left on the waistband. I basted the skirt inside the fold of the waistband and tried it on. I stitched up the last sides, leaving enough room for a zipper. I put a buttonhole on the overhanging tab and a button on the other side. Lastly, I hemmed the bottom.
I had a few scraps left of the fabric, so I decided not to let it go to waste, and make a pocket square for my boy.
I felt like a vintage wife, making a matching pocket square for the husband out of scraps....
None of leftover pieces were big enough for a pocket square so I made a patchwork quilt style square. I cut out squares and rectangles until they made a larger square.
I hemmed all the edges (one fold only) and then stitched them together with the faggoting stitch function on my sewing machine. It made a pretty, corset-like binding to keep the pieces together.
D loved it.
