Faux-western skirt

Our staff appreciate picnic this year had a western theme to it, so I took the opportunity to buy some vaguely western-looking fabric I'd been eyeing for a while and make a skirt.

I didn't use a pattern, but I based this on the skirt of Butterick 4443, since I know it fits me and it's a basic A-line skirt. I cut one piece on the fold, then drafted a new piece that had 7-9 extra inches added to one edge. That gave me a nice, won't-blow-open skirt. I cut those pieces not on the fold.

I sewed both fabrics into separate skirts, then bound them together with homemade bias binding. I fastened them with a buttons at the both corners of the overlap. There are buttons on both sides to make it reversible.

The fabrics turned out to all be from the same collection, which I didn't realize until I'd gotten home. No wonder they all matched so perfectly. :)