Slowly but surely doing some sewing!

[chocolatepot]

I scaled up a very basic Edwardian walking skirt from The Voice of Fashion and have been putting it together bit by bit.

The original illustration and the pattern

Obviously you've got to piece that - the vertical seams ended up nearly at the center back, which is good visually I think. But it could be made a little wider, because the size I scaled it up to with the ruler based on my waist only gave me

Basically put together

The frontmost dart is being weird ... I'm hoping it's just a combo of the fabric being stiff and thin, and if I make this in wool (as intended) it will smooth out. Overall, pretty happy! This could be a basic workhorse skirt pattern for me. But maybe made a bit fuller? I feel like my body requires more fullness in a skirt for balance.

Comments

[danabren]

"...but I am heroically not purchasing it because we have fabric at home!"

LOL

The front dart seems awfully large for what is a less-curved part of your hip area, too.

[chocolatepot]

I'm wondering if it's one of those things where a pattern is built to be scaled up proportionally only to a certain point, and when you keep going beyond that it gets wonky? Like the way plus size patterns sometimes are way too long or have massive shoulders or something?

I should finish it and see how it works when I'm just wearing it like normal!