I get so frustrated trying to learn how to fix a commercial pattern. Anyways I am making my own. It's just a skirt after all. So I am following the instructions I found here:
www.threadsmagazine.com/item/4668/drape-a-skirt-sloper
I made my darts, and now I'm pinning. I think it is going pretty well. Of course, I will try the darn thing on once I have it pinned. I will even install a zipper to test the 'on and off' factor. Let's face it when there is that much of a change between waist and hip, sometimes there is an issue. I will also see how well it hangs off my hips. The dress form may have my measurements, but I doubt there in the same spots. Then I will take it apart, trace it out, write really good instructions and then make a wearable muslin. I have denim that should work.
I am really trying to assure that the side seams stay perfectly on the side and the front and back centers stay where they need to be. So lets say I am actually successful in creating the pattern...my plan then will be to cut it out in denim, cut a cute cotton facing for the waist and make the skirt. No waistband. I would like it sleek and straight.
I so hope I have some wonderful pictures to show you. Maybe I will even do a Hong Kong finish inside with the same cute cotton fabric. Wouldn't that be something.
Sewing was so much easier when I had less of a shape.
Sidenote: did you notice I put a shirt on my dress form? Yes it is RTW and I did it for modesty's sake.
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