Swirling in the Swirl Skirt

Summer can play weird tricks on your mind. Maybe it's the fact that school is out, and you don't have to occupy your mind with (as much) schoolwork. Or maybe it's because of all the vacations and relaxing you are now allowed to do. Whatever it is, as I said, it can do some weird things to your brain. My brain, at least.
Like when I decided that I needed another skirt. Well, since stores nowadays only have miniskirts or ones that like to slip off your waist, the only option was to make one. To sew one. Just to let you know, I'm not a sewing fan. But I found a cute skirt in a sewing book, and (with the help of my Mother of course. If I did it all by myself it'd have had to end up as a potato costume) went to work!

I dug through my brothers' old pants that Mother had saved, and found three pairs of jeans with different values.

Then I grabbed another pair of old jeans that fit around my waste, and marked it all the way around (as is shown in the above picture) so that I could wallop off the top, along with the pockets.
Then, I cut out two strips from each pair of pants, and after a lot of measuring, cutting, and growling in annoyance, I sewed the curved strips to the top of the jeans.

The finished Swirl Skirt!

Despite all the extremely annoying parts (such as sewing something up, then realizing that I had accidentally made a tuck in the skirt, and then having to take it out again), the finished product was very nice, and the sewing experience has prepared me for later in life.