I've been #VibeSewing a skirt from a piece of mystery fabric I got from a fabric swap. Bleach and burn tests confirmed it's like 100% plastic but it's a nice weave and coincidentally the same tones as some cotton yarn a friend gave me to play with for tablet weaving.
So current situation is that I've:
* folded the fabric in half and cut on a diagonal to give me my exact hip diameter including seam allowances while getting every last cm of width at the hem possible (170cm - not my swooshiest but perfectly strideable)
* sewed!
* added darts to make the waist
* discarded my original idea of a waist band and instead just added facing (partly due to only having so many scraps for the purpose!) and I think I like it better that way
* added in a zip from I think an op shop haul? and pockets I salvaged from an old worn-out skirt of a similar colour
* much ironing and under-stitching and seam finishing
* and have just cut the hem, yay for my dress form
It looks very elegant if I do say so myself. 🙂
I'm not lining it because I generally wear petticoats anyway.
So now the "only" remaining step is #TabletWeaving the hem. I want to try doing that direct on the garment this time (last hem I did, I wove it as a band then sewed on to an already-hemmed skirt, but this one I want to do as anti-fraying not just decorative). The videos I've seen of people doing this they use two holes plus filler threads but I think if I use all four holes then I won't need extra filler. Plus I want to do a pattern to echo the pattern of the skirt.
This is the "only" remaining step because based on previous tablet weaves I predict it's going to take me at least as much time for that as the entire rest of the skirt has taken already....
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