Skirt progress

I finally got some sewing done! For the polonaise, I only bought fabric for the tunic, and was determined to use stash fabrics only for the skirt. It's been dubbed the "frankenskirt" because it's two different kinds of linen and some cotton. I tried it on over my lobster tail bustle, but there wasn't enough length allowed in the back to fit over a bustle, as you can see in the side photo.

This skirt has 10 (!) tiers of ruffles. It took forever to cut them all out to the lengths specified in the pattern. Here they are ready for gathering. I ran all the long edges through the serger, and pressed up one edge and machine hemmed. I decided I didn't really want to gather all that fabric with the traditional method, so I bought a ruffler foot and a gathering foot for my machine and will play around to see if one of those works. Here are the hemmed and pressed ruffles waiting for gathering. I had perfect colors in stash to go with my cats in space fabric!