Because it makes total sense to spend five hours making a skirt for a ten-minute presentation you agreed to do at the school.
Stages of making a circle skirt:
Stage 1: 20 minutes
You have cut out the skirt and sewn the side seams.
You feel amazing.
Circle skirts are so easy!
You begin planning to make one for each of your children (even the boys) and all of your best friends.
All you have to do is put on the ruffle and hem it, and you are done.
Stage 2: 2 hours
You have sewn 320 inches around the ruffle twice to baste it for gathering.
You are gathering and gathering and gathering .
You feel sorry for women who had to sew by hand.
Stage 3: 4 hours later
You have attached the ruffle to the skirt, sewing all those inches again.
You are still not done hemming this blasted skirt, even though you are using the secret weapon: horsehair braid.
Your back hurts. Your neck hurts.
You remember that you hate hemming skirts.
You feel like punching yourself in the face for starting this dumb project.
No way will you ever make a stupid circle skirt again, not even for someone you love, and not even if they offer you piles of money.
Final stage of making a circle skirt:
The skirt is fun to wear.
Marvelous Pigs in Satin 
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