Last minute black eyelet skirt

I debut my new skirt at a restaurant in Berkeley, CA.

I bought a yard and three quarters of really pretty black cotton with an eyelet edging on both selvedges about a year ago.  I knew I wanted to make a skirt out of it, but am just now figuring out what kind of skirt.

Well, actually, it's another last minute job.  I'm  going for a family visit in four days and I want something new.

This is pretty eyelet.

I want to use the eyelet edging as a ruffle, but I don't want it to look like a peasant costume.  I've seen some skirts recently that are A-line skirts with ruffles at the hem.  I think that will work for this.

This is a pattern I've made before. It fits well and I can flair it out a tiny bit to make it A-line.

Here is the sketch I made to work out the proportions.

I hold it up to get an idea of the length I want.

And can you believe how lucky I was ... there was a 7" black zipper in my zipper box!

This is how much I flared the front and back side seams. I didn't like my first line, so I drew a second slightly wider.

As I always try to do, I said "Self ... try this on before you put on the waist facing and ruffles."

As I said, I've made this pattern before and it fits fine. No changes needed.

And here is the finished product. I gathered and sewed on the two ruffle layers separately. I just like the look of that better. This will be a very versatile skirt!