Maternity skirt

I finished my maternity skirt yesterday!

Please ignore the lightning - the flash reflected in the mirror at the side.

The construction was very easy and I am happy, that my theory on how to create a maternity panel worked out.
[As you can see, extending the front patternpiece upward doesn´t make a straight waistline on the body. A straight waistline on the body is created by a curved patternpiece (like the yoke piece I had in the beginning).]
The panel goes smoothly over my belly and the panel is juuuusst low enough to allow the skirt to fit over my wide hips (I usually need rather long zippers, as the difference between hip and waist is large. Here, no zipper is needed). The back of the skirt is according to the regular zipper. There´s a thumbnail of the side view and of the skirt waist, to view a larger size, click on it:

I lined the skirt, as it is made of wool fabric. To be able to adjust the fit at the side seams, I sewed and serged the lining to the front and back seperatley, then sewing the back and front together. This doesn´t give an ideal finish to the upper side seam at the waist, but I will wear longer tops over the skirt anyhow (don´t need to show the maternity panel off too much). Unfortunatley I didn´t have enough fabric to make wider side seams. I had to do my usual 1cm. Well, that leaves me with 2cm for adjustments in case my hips widen...



I originally planned on inserting an elastic in the stretch panel. This was to be buttonhole elastic and you have to leave open the upper side seams as to be able to button it up with buttons inserted at the inner side of the back yoke. But the fabric I used has very good stretchy knit with body, so a support through an elastic is not necessary.
Here is the skirt together with the matching maternity jacket.