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Gertie's New Blog for Better Sewing: Sew a Full, Gathered Skirt , Part One: Make Your Own Pattern!
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Saturday, August 15, 2009. Sew a Full, Gathered Skirt , Part One: Make Your Own Pattern! A lot of you went gaga over this taffeta skirt from Vogue's New Book for Better Sewing. Well, do I have a secret for you! This type of skirt is easy to replicate, no scrounging around for a vintage pattern required. This is part one of two in this tutorial. In this installment, you'll learn to make your own simple pattern for this skirt. Or Swedish tracing paper. I'm just amazed I managed to get it in here.). That's ...
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Gertie's New Blog for Better Sewing: Make This Skirt! Part Two of the Gathered Skirt Tutorial
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009. Part Two of the Gathered Skirt Tutorial. Sunday, I posted the first part of this tutorial (see it here. Which showed you how to draft a simple pattern for the blue skirt above, which is similar in style to the taffeta gingham one. On the right, from Vogue's New Book for Better Sewing. Now, here are instructions for the easy-peasy construction. For my skirt here, I'm using a navy dupioni ($9 a yard at AK Fabrics in New York! Okay, let's get sewing! Now, on to the cutting. For...