When last you saw her dress, it fit her! I attached the skirt in a way that allowed for no torso expansion, and while it fit her now, she had extreme difficulty getting it on and off. I had it ready to assemble months ago, but she was very upset that in order to make it larger at the join, I had to cut some length off at the top. So these last many months I have been trying to figure out how to add length.
I looked at my fabric and mourned. I don't have enough of the pink patterned stuff to make a longer skirt section. Ikea no longer has this particular curtain. I hemmed and hawed. I thought and thought. I decided a white underskirt was the way to go. I planned on doing that all winter long, but for one little problem. No. Oddly enough, not time, though that was a factor in getting it done.
The problem was the white cloth. I had some of the right kind of cotton, but it was too narrow to make the longer skirt Cassie wanted. It brely added 2 inches doing it the way I made the first skirts. Time came into play because I did not have time to really think how to get all the things I wanted out of this one narrower piece of cloth.
First off, I was hoping for another full circle skirt. That was part of why she loved it. The fabric was just too narrow. I thought perhaps by laying it to quarters and sewing them together, but nope. Still did not get me what I wanted. I laid and folded and figured and finally managed to get what I was looking for by making eight sections for the circle. That gave me about 6 inches of white and that will make the longer skirt she liked.
The skirt is assembled and I am sewing the very narrow hem on it to match the other skirt parts. With my narrow little hem thing and my many seams, it isn't going so well s it did the first time. I may yet be ordering more fancy rolled hem feet and making a wider hem. I can probably use a greater variety of feet for my own sewing.
It is going, but slowly, ever so slowly.
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