V's Skirt, Part 1
Last Thursday I went over to a friend's house to help pack for an SCA
event over the weekend (in the midst of a torrential downpour. Time for
me to invest in a houseboat, I'm pretty sure. We've gotten something
like ten inches of rain over the past week). While the rain was
enthusiastically creating a stream where there had been a street, I laid
out and cut the pieces for V's renfest skirt.
I planned a one-and-a-half circle skirt; I like the extra swooshiness without being too bulky around the legs, especially with this mid-weight linen. Also deeply proud of thinking, hey, I could cut one full circle and the extra half, and just inset the half circle like a very large gore. Only two long seams, a hem, and a wasitband to sew. I win.
We don't need no stinkin' circumference math! Lazily estimating the hem by tracing it with my tape measure. (The radius is about 29 inches, to fit the full half-circle across the width of my 58" fabric...so the hem is about 270 inches. Wow. I don't think I wanted to know that.)
The lime green under the turquoise was going to be a stripe or ruffle at the bottom, but V said she liked the plain turquoise better, so I really didn't need to know the hem length after all. And I have a yard of brilliant lime linen to do something with.
I planned a one-and-a-half circle skirt; I like the extra swooshiness without being too bulky around the legs, especially with this mid-weight linen. Also deeply proud of thinking, hey, I could cut one full circle and the extra half, and just inset the half circle like a very large gore. Only two long seams, a hem, and a wasitband to sew. I win.
We don't need no stinkin' circumference math! Lazily estimating the hem by tracing it with my tape measure. (The radius is about 29 inches, to fit the full half-circle across the width of my 58" fabric...so the hem is about 270 inches. Wow. I don't think I wanted to know that.)
The lime green under the turquoise was going to be a stripe or ruffle at the bottom, but V said she liked the plain turquoise better, so I really didn't need to know the hem length after all. And I have a yard of brilliant lime linen to do something with.
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