i finally did it

Well, I finally cut into the degrade (sorry: I don't know what the accent grave key combo is; so it looks like I am writing the English verb "to degrade", rather than the French adjective). I serged the side-seams on the skirt and I am going to sew the tube and insert the elastic tonight after the kids are asleep. Then I think I have to hand sew the skirt to the t-shirt top, but I may be able to figure a way to machine stitch it. Open to suggestions on this one -- if you get em to me before I do something too drastic...