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Posted by Viviane on September 2, 2008, 5:55 am
Never too old. Experience is respected here! Anyway, I've discovered if
you wait long enough, things come back into fashion!
> Well - I may be too old for this group -- but you could always add a
> "crinoline" - that is a speparate skirt, shirred along with the face
> fabric -- made of toile or some kind of under fabric that will help the
> top skirt hold it's shape. This was the only was this kind if skirting was
> done was I was a kid -- toile is what gives wedding dresses their shape,
> it surely isn't the satin skirting. If I am way off base I apologize --
> good luck!! Kristen
>
>> BEI Design wrote:
>>> Pat in Arkansas wrote:
>>>> I am going to make a dress for DGD........she is
>>>> 6........and the perfect material turned out to be a
>>>> butterfly tablecloth. It is very limp after washing.
>>>>
>>>> It will be a full gathered skirt on a sleeveless bodice
>>>>
>>>> Would stiff iron on interfacing in the hem do it??
>>>> Do I need to line it with stiffy stuff of some sort?
>>>>
>>>> Hope you have a suggestion for me........
>>>>
>>>> Pat in AR.
>>>
>>> You could probably try a sample using fusible knit interfacing, but I
>>> think that might change the hand and weight of the fabric in
>>> unpredictable ways. Since the original finish was probably due to
>>> "sizing agent" added by the manufacture. How about using Niagara Heavy
>>> spray starch to re-size the fabric before cutting the pattern out? Of
>>> course it would have to be re-applied after each washing.
>>>
>>>
http://www.walgreens.com/store/product.jsp?CATID=100759&navAction=jump&navCount=1&id=prod4161
>>>
>>> NAYY,
>>>
>>> Beverly
>> You can still buy boxes of starch, too. That way, you could make it as
>> stiff or as limp as you like. As I recall, starch helped keep the
>> clothes clean, too.
>>
>> --
>> Joanne
>> stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth.milky-way.com
>> http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/
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