Have put together the skirt panels and put on the waistband. Still need to fold over and hand sew the underside together and put on the hooks and bars on the waistband before I can put the skirt to hang for a couple of days...
I've made so many simple walking skirts that I can't be bothered to very carefully document the process. "Finish the rest of the bodice as per usual methods" type of old manuals indeed.
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Sini Tuulia • •@Sini Tuulia take 4 yards and 2 nails of goods, finish the skirt as per the usual methods :D
(not accurate to the skirt you're doing, but I felt using nails was funnier)
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Sini Tuulia
in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •@valhalla "Four widths should be sufficient without piecing."
Four widths how wide? How wide??
Ah, love old instructions
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Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Sini Tuulia • •@Sini Tuulia at least some of those manuals have a section, approximately 1000 pages away, where they list the typical width of various kinds of fabric (what kind of fabric is being referred here may or may not be explicitly mentioned, everybody knows what fabric one uses for a skirt, right?).
and then there are the other that don't even have that.
like this
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Sini Tuulia
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Waistband on and mostly finished. Leaving one end open until I've put the hooks and bars on.
The thing where almost every Victorian skirt has an extremely snug waistband but the back skirt panels always have excess, even when the front and sides are fitted with darts? It makes letting out or taking in the skirt so much easier, 10/10.
#Sewing #HistoryBounding
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Sini Tuulia
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Sini Tuulia • •@Sini Tuulia do you leave excess material in the waistband to be able to let it out, even if it causes some bulk, or do you have to remake the waistband? (which is much less of an issue than having to remake the whole skirt, anyway)
edit: there was already an answer in the next post :D
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in reply to Elena ``of Valhalla'' • • •If the fabric is one that folds up nicely without bulk, I'll just cut the waistband with 3-6cm of extra and hide it in the seam allowance!
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Myrskykeiju
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •Sini Tuulia
in reply to Myrskykeiju • • •@myrskykeiju Self drafted! It's just a pretty basic five gore skirt, with darts on the side back pieces and gathering on the back piece, plus waistband. The front and side front panels are fairly straight with slight flare, and the back and side back panels are pretty flared.
It's very similar but not exactly the same as the Black Snail Patterns Fan Skirt, there the back excess is in pleats but other than that it's a very basic staple skirt shape!
Sini Tuulia
in reply to Sini Tuulia • • •@myrskykeiju Gosh heck I post so many skirt pictures... Anyway, here you can make out the shape, it's the exact same pattern but with slightly different dart placement!
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2025-08-23 08:59:48
Sini Tuulia
Unknown parent • • •Certainly there's not any dilution happening!