More on Spices: A Good Peppering

I have all these ideas for projects in my head that need to get out.  The problem is I have a variety of projects that I started and for whatever reason didn't finish.  So, I've decided to do some peppering.  Peppering in my unfinished with those that I'd like to begin.  I started this particular skirt years ago.  The problem was, the finished product was too short.  So what would happen was:  I would pull it out, try it on, think "I've got to fix this somehow," put it back, repeat following year.  I couldn't bring myself to giving it away with all the time I had put into the embroidery and I couldn't lengthen the actual skirt.  So this was my solution.  Add something to the lining, underneath.  I added the tulle and second layer of silk.  I like how the panels of the skirt mimic petals of a sunflower.  The flowers embroidered on silk are also out of silk with seed beads for the center.

Unfinished skirt, finished.

Now, back to the projects in my head.  Oh, and picking up the kids, and making dinner, and....