Pleated Work Skirt

I really needed a new work skirt but as usual was struggling to find anything I liked or fitted me properly.  So I bought some black fabric from the remnant bin for £3, and some cute anchor buttons 39p each so £2.34 for the 6 I bought.  I found a really useful tutorial for a pleated skirt with a great formula to help you work out  how much fabric you need for a pleated skirt.  Unfortunately I could not find my tape measure.  So I ignored the formula and just eyeballed some pleats in my rectangle of black fabric. 

It worked out fine.  After I pleated I tacked along the pleats, then folded some black fabric to make the waist band and sewed that on the top of the skirt (which at this point still looked like a rectangle).  I hemmed the edges of the fabric and sewed the buttons along the center edge, and button holes along the other.  I HATE button holes, and they look entirely crummy.  I hemmed the bottom of the skirt, and I was done.