My skirt challenge

As I mentioned in an earlier post, my daughter wants me to sew her a skirt and top. In order to fully explain to me what she wants, she drew a picture and sent me a JPEG of the drawing. Actually, it was over a dozen JPEGs, and here's one that's an overview of what she wants.

Looks pretty conmplex, doesn't it? It is, but the kid is tolerant when I say I can't do one bit or another.
Where am I in this project? The skirt is done at least to the base level. I used a pattern that had the high waistband, and put that together. There aren't any ruffles or the ribbon on the front yet, but that will come after she has tried on the skirt for a fit. I even put in the first turn on the hem, but not the second, so she can mark the length she wants.

This pattern was interesting. When we were in Essen, we went to Demmer Stoffverkauf, and they had a stack of patterns, and you could choose one for free when you spent more than (IIRC) Euro 15. We chose this skirt, and I thought, "Cool, a free pattern, and a skirt at that - ought to be easy."

Well, it's not one of Burda's best patterns, The front and back are just mirror images of each other, but it's the waistband that is the real kicker. Of course it's a pieced waistband, with 5 pieces for the front. But they also pieced the back with 5 more pieces. And the inside of the waistband has 10 pieces. And the interfacing. Yes, that's 30 pieces just for the waistband. I didn't catch that until I'd cut things, so it was a little too late to change, but if I make a second skirt, I will definitely use single pieces for the interfacing and inside, and probably the back waistband as well.
Here's a pic of the skirt up to now. I still have to buy a zipper, which I'll get tomorrow, then mail the skirt off to the kid.