So, sewing the ruffle layers to the tube skirt turned out to be a giant pain in the butt. Well no, I lie--sewing them to the skirt was easy. Sewing only the parts I WANTED to the parts of the skirt I wanted was a good deal harder.
Learn from my mistakes:
Do NOT use 4-way stretch material to make the pencil skirt. When you have sewn the ruffles to the skirt they add a lot of bulk, and this will stretch out and pull down the skirt. I have since added a band (from baby blanket ribbon, actually) around the waist to add stability.
Leave maybe an inch or two more at the top of the skirt, and cut it down to size after applying ruffles. I kinda needed to add a waistband because the skirt was falling below the line of the belt, which is silly and wrong.
Test the length of all your ruffles BEFORE you sew. Trying to cut more off/hem it after it's been gathered and sewn is needlessly painful.
After taking up the skirt several inches as I think I mentioned prior, I took it up AGAIN before sewing it all together. If you look, the second black layer of ruffles is actually the same damn length as the short layer--in the front center, anyways. I noticed this AFTER I'd sewn it all on so I got to go back and trim a bit more off, and then it hemmed a bit weird...I may have to re-do it if it keeps bothering me.
Follow my lead for:
Do run a line of thread along the gathered zig-zag before you sew it to anything. This adds stabilization.
Do run a line of thread along the raw edge of the gathered material...this flattens it and makes it easier to work with.
All I have left to do now is apply the velcro patches to the belt and skirt waistband, and let that set for 24+ hours. Whee!
Oh yes, and the top. I've actually done a lot on that, but that's for another post.
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