Skirt from Recycled T-shirts for the "Sew What!" Sew-Along

A couple of weeks ago I signed up for the "Sew What!" sew-along, hosted by Until Wednesday Calls and Confessions of a Sewing Dork. The rules stipulate that you must use the same fabric for every project. There's a different sewing challenge each week, beginning with last week's--to make a skirt from your chosen fabric.

I chose recycled knit (from old t-shirts, etc.), mainly because I wanted to learn more about sewing with it. I'm extraordinarily late on this (the second challenge is almost done!), but I still want to play along. I sewed this skirt for Bojey today:

It's greatly flawed and not very fancy, but I've already learned a heck of a lot about sewing with knit just from this single project. I pulled out my sewing books and looked up what stitches to use, how to set the tension, etc. I did this with two "helpers," and it still only took about 25 minutes, max. I needed a quick project since I still have one more thing to sew until I'm caught up...

The striped fabric was from an old H & M t-shirt I was given for free for this purpose, and the plain purple fabric at the bottom was from one of my old American Apparel tank tops that was falling apart. I'm not satisfied with the skirt as a final product, but I'm really excited that I'm starting to learn to sew with knit!