Under skirt progress

The under skirt is almost done, other than trimming it. I was sewing along with my serger to flatline my skirt pieces when a thread snapped on the serger. I haven't re-threaded it in forever, and with my nails and poor eyesight for detailed things, it took about an hour and a half to get it working again. I have a lot of trouble with my lower looper thread, I get it through and then it snaps when I start sewing. I also mistakenly serged one seam on the wrong side of the fabric, so had to cut it off and start over.

The finished skirt pattern is a few inches smaller, so I omitted the darts and made the box pleats smaller to get it to fit. Also I only had two hooks/bars so for now it will have to do.

I got the lace butterfly appliques on eBay, and am playing around with placement. I won't be able to finalize until I get the over skirt done and see how it drapes with the under skirt, but I think they will look nice. The lower edge trim is going to be an 8" wide panel that I am going to ruch with two lines of gathering, then sew white grosgrain ribbon over the gathers. I think it will look nice.

The original pattern has a much bigger booty, so I might need my bustle pad on top of my bustle!