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Posted in costume, dresses, sewing, skirts on Aug 22nd, 2011
You might have noticed that this is made to roughly the same pattern as the black linen dress. This time the ruffle’s a bit shorter, but that was mostly because I’d almost run out of stripy fabric. The body of the dress is a little longer to compensate. The hem is trimmed with one layer [...]
Today I have been mostly sewing an outfit that I planned almost a year ago, when I was offered my current job. I bought three men’s shirts from Marks and Spencer (lilac, pink and lemon), and bought some poly-cotton and broderie anglais trim from Fabric Land to make three matching petticoats. Here’s the first petticoat [...]
I’ve been clearing out my fabric stash, and stumbled upon four metres of crinkle broderie anglais at the bottom of a pile. I bought this while I was working at a fabric shop, and had been sent to a different branch for the day. Black broderie anglais is a very rare beast, so I snapped [...]
I’ve been trying to make this petticoat since March, but it was causing me to swear so terribly that it’s been shoved in a carrier bag underneath my sewing table for seven months. This is in fact only half a petticoat. There’s supposed to be a second layer on the bottom two tiers, but I [...]
I’m a little bit poorly this week, and the medication I’m taking is leaving me unable to concentrate, so I spent the day yesterday making a very simple skirt. It’s made in the same way as my Elasticated Skirt but instead of being an a-line shape, this one’s a full circle. What looks like the [...]
This is Simplicity 3737 (now out of print), view B. You’re looking at the bottom tier of the inside layer – which itself is two layers of dress net/crinoline, edged with satin bias tape. I still have to make the outer layer, and attach it all to the yoke. So far I’ve been working on [...]
For the past two days I have been wrestling with fourteen metres of dress net and fifty metres of bias tape. I’m hoping that these ingredients will eventually turn into this Simplicity petticoat. (Bottom right.) So far I’ve cut out all forty-two pieces, and stitched them into the appropriate tiers. Now I need to do [...]