Maybe I've missed some key dress diary secrets, but how do you get the pleating to come all the way around the waist under the wide lacing? It makes it look so finished!
There are... four? (maybe five?) sets of bound lacing loops at the CF closure which currently are all laced closed by one long piece of grosgrain which matches the velvet shockingly well (though is sadly completely synthetic).
I need to cut one piece of ribbon to separately tie together at least the top set (and I'd like to make some sort of modesty flap for the inside just in case) but other then it closes pretty neatly without much effort.
I think much of that has to do with how ridiculously tight packed the pleats are, there's so much fabric that it pushes the last pleats over into the one open seam. The blue kirtle that was my first shot at this style had much less fabric in the skirt and closes with hooks and eyes (in the CB) and the closure is not nearly so well hidden
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with 100% more "arrow"eggies_red_dresOctober 17 2008, 23:45:59 UTC
So you kinda use he added bulk of the pleats to fill in that little space created at the top. When you add the loops to be *closed* rather than open as with the bodice section, it gives a great full effect without having to have a static width to the placket. Not by any means impossible to be static, just not very elegant in the mindset of lacing.
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Maybe I've missed some key dress diary secrets, but how do you get the pleating to come all the way around the waist under the wide lacing? It makes it look so finished!
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I need to cut one piece of ribbon to separately tie together at least the top set (and I'd like to make some sort of modesty flap for the inside just in case) but other then it closes pretty neatly without much effort.
I think much of that has to do with how ridiculously tight packed the pleats are, there's so much fabric that it pushes the last pleats over into the one open seam. The blue kirtle that was my first shot at this style had much less fabric in the skirt and closes with hooks and eyes (in the CB) and the closure is not nearly so well hidden ( ... )
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Thanks for the arrow! :-D
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