CONTINUING WITH THE SUMMER BREEZE COLLECTION...

...I was thinking that I'd totally gotten away from the Pantone colors that I originally wanted to include in my Summer Breeze Collection, but decided to use the rest of the fabric that I used for my Mother's Maxi dress to make a self drafted yoga band maxi skirt for myself.  Let's just call this color emerald green.

I've been wanting to learn how to make a good fitting yoga band for months.  I'd tried it before, but with less than satisfiable results.  Well I tried it again yesterday, and this time it worked.  Only thing is, I might have made the band just a little bit snug, but it is completely wearable.

Here's a picture of the skirt with the 8 1/2" band fully extended up.  I like that I finally found out how to make the band curve inward in the side seams.

and a picture with the band rolled down as it will be worn.

The skirt has a lettuce hem treatment which I find completely suitable for a casual knit garment.  My plan was to wear it with my 3rd Briar top.

I'm not sure yet; I like the skirt, and I really like the top, but I'm not absolutely sure that I like the two together.  On the dressform it looks a bit matronly - and I sure don't want to emit that persona.  We'll see.  If it doesn't work I can always find another top for the skirt, and wear the Briar with something else.   These two pieces used up 3 1/2 yards of stashed fabric.  Maybe joining  the "Style The Stash" Sew-a-Long was a good thing after all because I've used approximately 15 1/2 yards of well marinated stash fabrics since the first of June.  That's interesting because I'm not one that usually  tallies fabric in/fabric out counts.  But that's a lot of fabric.