Sewing bee - Round 1 - pencil skirt & music - Lekala 4255 in stripes

So the craziness of the PR sewing bee started once again. I really contemplated staying out of it specially after seeing the 1st challenge -  a pencil skirt that is really not my thing or what I should be sewing right now. But once you had a taste of it can you really pass it ?!? What I loved about this contest was the push you got out of the your comfort zone. The need to explore new ways. And the fact that I had no plan on sewing anything like the 1st challenge was the 1st indication that I should do it. And as if the pencil skirt was not enough they had to request a musical or musician inspiration for it. Now that was really hard. Because for me music is all about feelings and emotions . How to render all that in seams...
     I all started this time with a song. the 1st song i could think of the moment I read the rules was Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat - Lucky :

  It is a lovely song that both me and my husband love. We are far from the perfect couple with the perfect clicking in every way ... but we love each other and we are each other's best friend. And now the hard part... How could I put all this in a "pencil skirt"?!?
     I browsed my fabrics and my patterns... I looked at random skirts on the internet... I sketched skirts with my 5 years old ... waiting for something to click...

The 1st think I decided is that nothing can tell a story better then a stripes printed fabric. I wanted to go for dualism by using a coordinated polka dots fabric but I could not  find anything suitable. So I choose a black and white irregular stripes fabric for my skirt and polka dots for lining.

Then I picked my starting pattern in Lekala 4255.  It had interesting lines and twists that I felt i could work with and they generally give a decent fit and my waist/hip ratio is not standard so any standard pattern might have required to much work.

After having a general plan I did a very very quick muslin to get a feeling of the pattern and help decide how to tell my story on that white canvas  skirt ...

 It was a really good thing I did that. It was way to long for me and there is no way I could have fixed that after sewing it without ruing all the fun in the back. There were some pull lines and fabric excess that needed to be addressed. And on top of everything else I still hadn't told my story yet....
   But the morning I finally had some time to actually work on it not just imagine it all things finally got together and clicked. I would eliminate the side seams. Side seams are for me a symbol of separation between different entities. I wanted those lines burred and I wanted the front and back to go together in their own way. To have their own story. And more then anything I wanted harmony. And because this was a love story after all I thought I could create a heart shape over my bottom from two different pieces coming together the right way.
   And now the result:

   Did I got it? Did I manage to render my feelings and my song? Or it was just me going crazy ... This is the bee after all. Crazy is part of the game.