Recycled Jeans Wrap Skirt Tutorial: Part Three of Three

Make a waistband by creating a length of two-and-a-half-inch wide cotton fabric. It's length should be the equivalent of twice the measurement of the circumference of your waist, plus one yard. Heat up your iron and press this strip so that the two raw edges meet in the middle on the wrong side of the fabric. Position this pressed waistband strip along the wrong side of the skirt with raw edges together. Laying out the skirt with wrong side up, the waistband should extend eighteen inches beyond the skirt's left edge, and on the right edge it should extend beyond the skirt edge in a length equal to half your waist measurement plus eighteen inches. (Approximate measurements will do.) Sew the waistband to the skirt along the waistband strip's pressed fold line closest to the edge, with the right side of the waistband against the wrong side of the skirt, as shown above.
Bring the two folded edges of the waistband strip together and top stitch the edges together to finish the end ties.
Continue top stitching as you bring the waistband around from the back, fitting it snugly against the raw edge of the skirt and letting it fold in along the pressed-in line.
Here is the finished skirt. The tie on the right is eighteen inches long. The tie on the left is half your waist circumference plus eighteen inches. The last step is to make nine one-inch buttonholes in the waistband: three buttonholes above the fourth panel from the left, three above the fifth panel from the left and three more above the sixth panel from the left. This way you can continue to wear the skirt as your waistline size changes.

To wear the skirt, you wrap it around yourself, threading the shorter of the ties through a buttonhole, and bringing the longer tie across your waist to tie in a bow with the other.