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 all the gathering, and sew all of the tiers together.
I am beginning to understand why petticoats are so expensive, and also wishing that I’d just bitten the bullet and bought one in the first place. Petticoat Perfection do one which would have been absolutely ideal.
The cartoon is by Dave Walker at We Blog Cartoons. I have a print out of this pinned to my noticeboard, where I can see it every time I think I will just go and have a little look at the internet…