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| machine sewing again! |
I'm machine sewing again, it's been a while!
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| sewed the satin ribbon waistband |
To get it out of the way, I first joined the top tier, overlapping by about 1cm the side seams, and sewing with a wide zigzag stitch. Then, I folded the rectangular loop in two, to form the two layers, also folded the satin ribbon in two, like I did for the skirt, folded it on top of the tulle fold, and topstiched it near the bottom, as neat as I could, to make an elastic casing.
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| 1st tier and 2nd ruffled tiers |
Then I joined the two very long strips of the bottom tier - one has two tulle pieces, the other had to be in 3 pieces - using the same overlapping with a zigzag stitch method, folded them in half, to form two layers, and, with safety pins and clothes pins, marked 4 quarters in each. To keep things a bit controlled, I decided to make the ruffling in 4 quarters. I made the ruffles the classical way, with a coloured theread (to be easily seen on the white tulle), I machine basted - wide and loose stitches - each quarter along the fold, turned back, and added a second basting line. When I finished basting, I tied the threads on one of the sides, and pulled the two loose threads on the other side, until I had fairly 1/4 of the top tier's length. Then I repeated this 7 more times, until I had a straight top tier, and two very ruffly bottom tiers.
+ Machine sewing this is a bliss, even though I sent a whole afternoon doing this.
- I can't even fathom having to do this by hand, what a pain!
THE CUNNING PLAN
As it was already a bit late, and I wasn't sure how my mom's machine would deal with this kind of tulle volume, I decided to stop there and finish attaching the ruffles to the top tier by hand, at home. It should be quite easy with a gauge, and probably I'll use double thread, so I can secure it better.
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