Silk/Linen Tweed skirt, Burda Style 02-2011 faced waistline

Once or twice a year, I buy a fabric bundle from Michael's for not very many $ per yard, plus about 25% per yard for postage, much less expensively than I can buy similar fabric in Australia. The fabric is always very high quality, and as I am very bad at moving out of my rut, I am sure that some of the more interesting textures and colours (which are not chosen by the recipient) are very good for me - even if I have to dye them... This fabric, however, spoke directly to my conservative heart.
Silk, sigh, Linen, aah, tweed, how delicious, deadly dull neutrals, just my cup of tea, but how bad am I with my carbon debits ?, this poor fabric has travelled from Scotland, to Boston, U.S.A to Queensland, Australia for a very small price indeed. I don't think this started out as a small price fabric. Being a complete sucker for  interested in fabric selvage labelling I looked up Holland & Sherry. I could not find my fabric in the permanent collections, nor in the seasonal collections for the past 3 years, but I love it anyway, ancient and out-of-fashion as it may be. Despite its antcedents, I washed this fabric in my machine on the delicate setting (admittedly after a sample survived hand washing), knowing that dry-clean only instructions are patently ridiculous for clothing to be worn in a sub-tropical climate. The fabric not only survived the experience without shrinking, but was even more luscious and softer in texture once through the machine.  I have made a very boring, classic pegged skirt from this beautiful and hardy fabric.


 Here we go again with my adjusted TNT Burda Style 02-2011-103/6/7. I used the Claire Shaeffer faced waistline again, this time in the 'with lining' version. Having used  this technique twice in a row, I am feeling fairly confident in my acquisition of this waistline finish.
The stay tape and interfacing are in between the lining (sandwashed silk charmeuse from Greenfields) and the outer fabric.
The grosgrain waistline facing is attached inside the lined skirt. Again I have used Kenneth King's lapped off set zipper from Cool Couture, and added a back kick pleat to the skirt.
 I have bound the hem with the lining fabric, to decrease bulk, and taken a photo of it prior to ironing, (sorry) as the light was fading rapidly. Hand sewing takes me far longer than I expect.
The edges of the pleat have been bound with the charmeuse,and I pinked the lining hem edge prior to attaching tea dyed lace to the edge by machine zig zag.
 I am extremely pleased with my boring skirt, and imagine that I will wear it all-the-time for years. Something so dull will takes ages before it is noticeably out of date.