petticoat

I finished my petticoat back in September. and thought I had posted about the finished product, but. apparently I didn’t. I am not completely satisfied with the finished product. its a bit uneven. what I need is a bigger place to lay things out. I tired to make it all even, but in the end it just wasn’t to be. its not too bad though when its all in place, with my hoop and everything underneath it. aside from wrestling with so much fabric it wasn’t too hard to make. I just made a bunch of eleven inch strips, sewed them together. hemmed the edges with a tiny topstitch hem. on both sides, then ruffled the entire thing with my ruffling foot (best purchase ever!). next I made a simple skirt that was a hundred sixty inches wide at the bottom tapering up to I think I did sixty inches, now I can’t remember but it was something like that. I got my finished length by measuring both my hoop and the Skirt I was wearing this with. I then hemmed it, and pinned the ruffles on, which took forever. and had to be done one at a time. after each ruffle was pinned I sewed it on. somewhere along the way though things must have shifted slightly while I was sewing and that’s why its not entirely even. I have been considering redoing the uneven part, and seeing if I can fix it up a bit. but then I keep thinking its for underneath so do I really need too? the answer is probably not, I will just see how much it bugs me. if its driving me too crazy then who knows perhaps I will.

the petticoat without the hoop.