The over skirt has been a bear. A lot of fabric management, and very poor directions on the pattern. I believe there is supposed to be a burnous pleat in the back, with a back closure, using the pleat as extra space to get into the skirt. The skirt is supposed to be mounted to the under skirt so that makes sense. I decided to make it a separate skirt though, and decided to put the opening in the front. I think I am still not quite understanding the scanty directions because there is NO WAY that this would be small enough to fit the listed waist size, no matter how I interpret the directions. So, I just started playing with it and draping it on Petunia (my son named my dress form ...). I think it looks reasonably like the photo. Boy is it heavy! I tried it all on so I could do a bodice fitting and noticed one set of my hip pleats was way forward compared to the other, so I fixed that. This skirt is done other than I need some kind of white spots on my black ruffle, and am not sure yet if I will (a) paint them, (b) sew on beads, or (c) use a beaded tassel trim. I am leaning towards option (a). I also may trim back the black ruffle along the front edge to a narrower width so you can see more of the under skirt.
Now if I could just get the cats to stop sleeping on the train ....
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