Pattern: Diana Rupp's Naughty Secretary Skirt
Fabric:
- Rayon Crepe-remnant (slightly less than 1 yd)
- Poly Charmeuse-remnant (slightly more than 1 yd)
- 1 regular zipper
Having just finished the muslin for a little boy's shirt (Simplicity 8543) for a friend, I wanted to make something for me. I had found a lovely light rayon crepe with marvelous drape and paired it with a burgundy colored charmeuse for a lining. It's sewn together, but I have the hem to do and I want to jazz it up.
I plan to add lace on top of the skirt in a pattern (attached directly to the rayon) to jazz it up a bit. As it's going to be added at the last, I want to finish all the rest of the construction and also mark the final hem length before I attach the lace.
Construction steps:
- I put in the darts for both fashion fabric and lining.
- Joined front to back pieces on the fashion fabric and lining.
- Sewed the fashion fabric and lining together at the waist (right side together) and understitched.
- Attached the back left and back right panel to the zipper for fashion fabric. And for lining. Sew
- Finished sewing the last 2" (right next to zipper) and turned lining in.
- Sew rest of back seam.
- Still need to hem. Need to add lace.
Construction notes:
- I had a tough time cutting out the pattern due to the slinky nature of the rayon. In the future I will
- copy out the full pattern so I don't have to fold the fabric (which was very tough)
- sandwich the fabric using tissue on the bottom and the paper pattern on the top
- I also did not add a bias tape waist band as called for in the pattern. I don't think it needs it since both fabrics together gives the skirt quite a bit of heft.
- Because the fabric was so slippery, I cut the lining extra big. I made the lining first in order to do a fitting.
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