My second piece for my 26 pieces project is another pleated skirt, but I swear it's not a cop out. You see, my (great) Auntie Peg died and for my nan's funeral I made an entire dress, so I thought Nan's sister deserved a new skirt at least. Odd logic, but comforting to me.
Finding a suitable fabric was harder. I had four days to make a skirt and my local Spotlight weren't helping. I almost chose a pattern of white roses on black but finally spotted this bolt hiding under a pile and cried triumphant. Run for home, overlock edges and wash. Victory is mine!
I had a plan for this skirt - no winging it this time. I wanted to copy this skirt and set out following the tutorial only to discover a simple fact: pleats going in make me look pregnant, pleats going out don't.
Time to wing it after all. I just repeated the last skirt: make a centre pleat and guess the rest. It seems to work okay for me. I added a lapped zipper this time and enough waistband to overlap with a bar set. The skirt is midi length and I'm planning a slight crinoline underneath to give it a little oomph. I like oomph. I don't think I'll use the blind stitch setting on my machine again for my next hem - it creases up so much. I think I'll just hand stitch next time.
Oh, and I really need to remember that I need 15mm to set a zip, not my usual 6mm seams. I had to add bias binding to add enough seam width.
I told you: I like oomph.
Finding a suitable fabric was harder. I had four days to make a skirt and my local Spotlight weren't helping. I almost chose a pattern of white roses on black but finally spotted this bolt hiding under a pile and cried triumphant. Run for home, overlock edges and wash. Victory is mine!
I had a plan for this skirt - no winging it this time. I wanted to copy this skirt and set out following the tutorial only to discover a simple fact: pleats going in make me look pregnant, pleats going out don't.
Time to wing it after all. I just repeated the last skirt: make a centre pleat and guess the rest. It seems to work okay for me. I added a lapped zipper this time and enough waistband to overlap with a bar set. The skirt is midi length and I'm planning a slight crinoline underneath to give it a little oomph. I like oomph. I don't think I'll use the blind stitch setting on my machine again for my next hem - it creases up so much. I think I'll just hand stitch next time.
Oh, and I really need to remember that I need 15mm to set a zip, not my usual 6mm seams. I had to add bias binding to add enough seam width.
I told you: I like oomph.
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