I haven't so I don't know, but the first thing that came to mind was 'save the part you cut off and make a mirror tribal belt out of it'.

Can you post a photo of the skirt?

uploaded a pic to the album!

Can I ask? How come you want to take the mirror top off? Do you want to make it a regular skirt?
I haven't tried to do that, but I opened up my Banjara skirt and made it into an apron style overskirt and just tie over other stuff. There are some pix in my profile of it. I love it like that.
If you feel really guilty about taking off the mirror you can always make it into an overskirt.

Why cut it off?

Well the mirrored panel is 8" wide x 34" long (the mirror work doesn't extend the entire length - only 29" of 34) and it makes a rather awkward yoke - as my high hip is 35" and the booty is 38" and I'd rather not wear the skirt FCBD split style or as an overskirt - as I suspect there is a fair amount dye that will bleed....it just has that 'I'm saturated with dye' feel to it.

Leesahh, I probably wouldn't cut the yoke off if my skirt had a yoke similar to your skirt - it looks like yours has a fair amount of fabric in it - I'm a little concerned about wearing belts and such over so much glass.

The up-side is that the yoke is completely recycle-able for belts, bras and other embellishments.

I'll have a look at the bias tape method - I'm a little concerned with having enough space...I may have to get the seam ripper out for some 'exploratory surgery' and find out what's going on underneath the panel.

Hey Ladies!

I got the panel off without having to cut! Whoo!!!

I posted a pic of the guts of the yoke and the rest of the story....tribes.tribe.net/diycostum...2f7ce45850


I love my seam ripper! :-)