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Continuing the white linen walking skirt. Evened the hem and tried it on to see if it's even... It is! Now with little dance.
Also oh my gods the illusion of the black decorative strip on the hem, really being the longer skirt I was just wearing under? Ah, might have to see about making that some day... 😂

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It really does look nice just as it is, like this... If I only did a narrow bias strip hem without any other nonsense, I could have it done in no time at all, and it would remain this sort of elegantly plain skirt... It does read as underwear to me as I have Edwardian eyes currently, but I don't know if I'd mind walking outside in even more underwear than I have, having worn petticoats as overskirts previously. 🤔

Ah well. I shall finish the hem and ponder it further, everything else is sort of applied on anyway, if I decide to add it.

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I have made a silly quantity of bias tape. Or rather, am in the process of turning it into bias binding, we'll see how much I cut out and assembled in a bit... I keep being torn between "do nothing leave skirt as is" and putting on decorative bands and even adding a hem ruffle. I might just follow my heart and add on a bunch of nonsense just because it brings me joy and will keep me busy? I am not the most minimalist of people!
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I've done the hem binding and then obsessed about adding a ruffle or not adding a ruffle and... I'm expending a point of willpower to just leave it be, I can always use a plain skirt and I kind of want to make another extravagant petticoat anyway. So it's done! Looks pretty much the same as it did yesterday probably, with some more structure to the hem. We'll see when I can get a photo or video clip of it or something. 😶

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Close up photo of just the hem of a white linen walking skirt, instep length. There's a bias binding on the underside of the hem, top stitched on at one edge to secure it and then two more times for structure and decoration. The binding plus the stitching makes the hem curve in a pleasant wave, and looks pretty tidy and neat, minimalist and plain. The fabric is sheer so the binding at the hem stands out as a whiter band in the white. The skirt is hanging off a door frame, and the colour of the wall behind shines through a little bit.
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@solderandchaos Short answer: self drafted

Long answer: I drafted it based on the general shapes outlined in The Keystone Cutter but off my own basic block (for the dart placements and such), but changed the front and sides to be narrower than the 1890s walking skirt, and made the back and side back have the sort of habit back swoop of around 1900-1905, plus extra allowance to let out later!

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@solderandchaos It's fairly similar to the Black Snail Patterns Fan Skirt pattern though, if you want to work off something and don't mind doing the print and glue rigmarole
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@quixoticgeek @solderandchaos It's a "cutting" manual from the 1890s that gives you measurements, angles and such to draft patterns based on your own measurements, cutting out is the old term for making up a pattern and, well, cutting it from fabric. 😄 Often this was done just on the fabric itself, based on maths, I think that's where the word comes from.
Actually sewing the thing was making up or sewing, and pattern drafting was sometimes its whole other thing.

Anyway, here it is: archive.org/details/keystoneja…


The "Keystone" jacket and dress cutter. A treatise on jackets, dresses and other garments for women : Hecklinger, Charles. [from old catalog] : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

93 p. 30 cm
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