I've done this with skirts that would be cartridge pleated. You make up the skirt flat, decorate, sew up, hem then put a thick piece of elastic around your waist over the skirt. Make sure the hem is correct all around then mark it above the elastic. Add your turnover for the cartridge pleats (I use 3"), cut (the hardest part is to have faith at this point). Then mark the pleats, pleat to your waistband or bodice. Of course there's a placket to be added in there if needed.
The first one is the hardest. After 2 or 3 it becomes 2nd nature. LynnD On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 1:25 PM Wanda Pease <[email protected]> wrote: > I am looking at some very old patterns I got from the City of Augsburg > when they were celebrating their 2000 anniversary. They decided to have > people in historic costume and since they had some 16th century pieces > laying around (!!!!) they used them to make male and female pattern. > There is a nice one for a cartridge pleated skirt on one of the gowns, > but they just say to adjust the hem from the waist seam (?) Since this > is one of those with bands of different fabric trimming the skirt, I > think they mean to sew the bands to the straight fabric, then somehow > gather it at the waist so the hem is right. > > Has anyone done this? How? > > Put the fabric around your waist, belt, and adjust? > > How do you manage those pleats? Straight pleating wouldn't be as > hard, but these are definitely cartridge type. The skirts I saw on > older women wearing "folk costume" had pleats like this with the same > trim pattern but shorter. I realize that "folk costumes" even if they > look like they should be derived from period, aren't. > > Thoughts? > > Regina Romsey > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > https://indra.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] https://indra.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
