She's back at last

My machine returned to me on Monday. She has had a very thorough overhaul and is startlingly clean inside. She's had a service and her timing altered as it was out a bit. She has also had the fault with the embroidery sensor fixed. She is purring along beautifully and I spent Monday night bonding with her over a pair of trousers that needed hemming and four attempts at putting in a zip. Yes, FOUR attempts at putting in a centred zipper on the Marfy denim skirt. I should point out that I do know how to do a centred zipper. But you can't tell this from the end result as you can see. I may have to go for a fifth attempt. But not until the weekend. Tired people and zippers that are in the front of skirts as design features do not mix. I do, however, have high hopes of the pattern itself. The match on the seams for the panels on this version are ever so, ever so slightly off, but I think that may be my perfectionist side showing as I doubt anyone will get close enough to really notice. I keep telling myself this is only the test run, though I do think its going to be one of those skirts that I will want to make several of. I added two inches to the length because I wanted to be quite sure I had enough hem. When I tried the tacked version on to fit it, it was rather longer than the model shows. However, I rather liked the longer length and may leave it that way, on this version at least.