Have put together the skirt panels and put on the waistband.

[sinituulia@eldritch.cafe]

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.

#Sewing

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@sinituulia 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)

[sinituulia@eldritch.cafe]

@valhalla "Four widths should be sufficient without piecing."
Four widths how wide? How wide??

Ah, love old instructions

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@sinituulia 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.

[sinituulia@eldritch.cafe]

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

[valhalla@social.gl-como.it]

@sinituulia 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