New Look 6872

My husband says that I have a one track mind and when it comes to sewing and I definitely agree with him. Earlier in the week I decided that I wanted a new skirt to wear for the weekend, so on Thursday night I did the cutting and Friday night I sewed it up.

 I bought this fun Michael Miller quilting cotton last weekend at Quiltin Cousins in Pismo Beach, California.

It was almost exactly a year ago when I made this skirt last and the difference in skill is huge! My favorite sewing book turned me on to using three rows of basting stitches instead of two and it makes the gathers look 100 times better.

This is the pattern I used. My skirt is View D, but I omitted the pockets. When I made this last year the skirt took me forever (it seemed) to sew up and I wasn't 100% happy with how it turned out. Have you ever revisited a sewing pattern that you used when you first started sewing?