Shiver Me Timbers, I Made a Garment (Life List Update!)

(This is part of my ongoing efforts to meet these goals by the end of the summer)

I made a skirt.

I'm not in love with it but I done it!  With pockets.

I feel kind of meh about the whole process.  It seemed like a lot of work and frustration for a final product that I don't like.  I followed this tutorial, which was perfectly lovely, had I followed it more closely.  I was also following along with this other tutorial...which incidentally, makes a slightly different kind of skirt.  Don't ask me why I tried following two differing tutorials.  I just thought double the help = double the success.
I need to learn to not wing it when I've never done it before.  (That loud HALLELUJAH was my husband who asks this of me every time I try new recipes.  In my defense, I can't help it.)
The fabric is not my favorite but it met all of my initial requirements: inexpensive, light cotton, not transparent and not hideous.  The skirt fits a little poofy/baggy for my taste and I really struggled with making an outfit of it because it felt so frumpy.  And while I embrace a little frumpy, this was beyond my frumpfort level.  (AHAHAHAH...oh, sorry)

I had fun wearing it once but I don't know long it will last in my closet.  I don't got no room for skirts who ain't gonna pull their weight 'round these parts.

So, for next time: follow a single tutorial faithfully, no pockets, narrower through the hip, smidge longer and better fabric.  Hoo-ah!