McCall's M5591, take 2

You may recall that I made a skirt for Jess back in June. She decided she likes it so much (despite it being somewhat big in the waist - one of the hazards of long-distance sewing) that she wanted another one, and who am I to say no? ;)  This time I made it out of knit fabric, which was not one of the recommended fabrics on the pattern, but neither was the canvas I used the first time. I'm brave like that. Ha! It worked out fine, and was, in fact, easier to sew than the canvas skirt.

Daylight just was not cooperative for me for taking pictures, but I needed to do it anyway so I could mail the skirt to Jess to wear for Christmas festivities. So forgive the blurriness caused by a dark, cloudy, occasionally snowy day. Here's the skirt:

I like the pocket flap. We "borrowed" the idea from a ready-to-wear (expensive) skirt Jess saw for sale on a website. It's just a flap... no pocket underneath. The skirt does have pockets, though, in the side seams. Adding this flap made for a pretty thick seam right there... NINE layers, in fact, by the time you count the folds of the pleats and the interfacing in the flap! But it actually wasn't hard to sew through, since the knit (which was called double knit in the store, but I don't think it is) is fairly thin.

Last time I also had trouble getting the waistband to line up right when putting in the zipper, due to the pleats there being kind of in the way (but I didn't show you a pic of its crookedness - haha). This time I knew what to expect and I was prepared and used a little different technique. I'm very pleased with how it turned out:

The rest of the zipper is sewed in under those pleats... just a bit tricky but doable.

I'm quite happy with how it turned out. I think it would look really cute with a pair snazzy tights, don't you? Now let's just hope the waist fits!