1890's Victoriana Day Outfit.

comments (0) October 20th, 2009 in sewing, fabric, tools & supplies, embellishments, reader's closet

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I made the skirt from a Truly Victorian pattern TV 292 Bell Skirt. The base fabric is a gray colonial strip quilting cotton. The trim is 10 mts of light pink double faced satin ribbon and a beautiful grey vine jacquard ribbon.
The underskirt is gray bemsilk andl olive cotton drill for the hem ruffle.
Unseen is the 3 lengths of button tape. The button tape will hitch up the train when dancing at a ball. Save me from tripping over it and land on my ***.

Although this pattern assumes you have an intermediate level of sewing skills. I found after searching the TV Forum archive that making up was easy.

To make up this skirt a 1/4" rolled hemming, blind stitch and a ruffler foot will make light work of all the gathering and hem finishing.

The shirt waist is Butterick B4418 which is out of print. My friend @ Tee Ann Designs made my shirt waist for me.

For the Victorian collar I chose to make a Butterick Pattern B4698. I read the instructions and found that creating the pleats for the collar tails a bit of a mystery. I tried several ways until I got my collar looking like the one on the Butterick site. Although it looks easy to make up, it's is the pleating that stumped me for a few attempts. Otherwise, if you were in a real serious sewing mood you could finish it in a day.

I only used one special foot to make this up. I replaced the decorative cord with 5mm wide sating stitching. So an satin stitch foot is a must if you wish to make this change in pattern construction.

Pattern or design used: Truly Victorian TV 292 and Butterick B4418 and Butterick 4698. posted in: sewing, fabric, tools & supplies, embellishments, reader's closet, sewing machine, garment, seam, art-to-wear, quilting, button, commercial patterns, hem, trimming, waist, collar, lining