Great tutorial. You are correct to always buy quality fabric. It makes all the difference in the garment. Thank you for another great video showing step by step instructions.
Thank you! Unfortunately, I often can only tell the quality after my online order arrives. I intend to wear my clothes for long long years. I'm not a fan of fast fashion. So quality is very important.
Thank you for such a clear video - I have no idea how I missed this one as I've watched all your other videos - as this is EXACTLY what I was looking for. I want to make some walking skirts but WITHOUT the huge bulk in the back - I mainly use a walking frame but also sometimes a wheelchair and if the hem is too full it catches in the wheels of both leaving me with dirty marks on the front panels. This will be perfect with a much smaller gore at the centre back and I even have a couple of metres of a beautiful woollen check fabric that will look perfect and is wide enough to - hopefully - pattern match sufficiently any mismatch won't be obvious. Thank you so much, this really is the BEST walking skirt pattern I've seen, it is so easy to make and adjust to how full you want a skirt to be.
I FOUND THE USE OF POCKETS!!!!! (finally!) They're HAND WARMERS!!!!!!! I already tried pockets TWICE (omg miracle), first ones were a disaster, second ones, still not perfect, BUT! BUUUT!!! I can use them in winter to keep my hands waaaaaarm!!! Who'd have guessed?
I’ve had a somewhat productive day sewing-wise. This was a great way to relax my brain after sewing all morning. 😄 although I think a nap will feel great too😂 I’m looking forward to seeing what other versions of this skirt you’ll make!
@@APenchantforSewing I was wondering if you did! I really enjoyed it😄 so tiny and perfect as usual! It’s no wonder you prefer not to spend the time doing that when preparing fabric to wash. My overcasting stitches are large like basting stitches when it’s just being removed later. Would you do larger stitches in that case as well? Or still do tiny ones? Just curious☺️
@@planningtolive_thebestlife453 Tiny ones! Only my basting stitches are big (and very ugly). Even when I start with large stitches, they get smaller and smaller. I have no patience to overcast fabric, I want to wash it ASAP because I'm too excited to start sewing a garment. Of course, pre-washed fabrics usually sit in a corner for months before I do anything with them...
You are correct about the selvage being distorted. Fabric companies create those just to finish the sides of the fabric. The only ways to fix that are to either pull and clip a thread alongside the selvage and use the space to cut it straight to the grain or clip and tear alongside. Tearing can distort the weave as well. To thread pull, pick a thread, pull it up with a pin or needle and pull it out. If it breaks, use the pin to work it out and keep pulling. Clip the other end of the thread as well.
Fortunately, the pattern often guides you. I had a very hard time matching the pattern to make the corresponding panels look somewhat symmetrical. The weave was very uneven, sometimes there was even an inch difference on the two sides of the fabric. If it had been a plain fabric, I wouldn't have been able to tear or pull the thread, I think.
No, there isn't! Also, as this pocket is positioned toward the back, I find it embarrassing to reach in it in public. How could Victorian ladies do it?!
hello! I am the in-between! I hate almost all of the pockets I have, be they on bought clothes or me-made. I'm still looking for the perfect pocket! 3 tests down, many more to go... I don't want pockets, yet I find myself reaching for the non existing ones. I hate having something heavy an bulky in my pockets, yet I don't want a bad ... aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
@@APenchantforSewingWell, everyone did it because it was normal, so there was nothing to be self-conscious about. And well, we still have back pockets today, in almost all kinds of pants for example. It's my personal belief that the giant victorian back-pocket is a big part of why cartoon characters always pull big things seemingly out of their ass. There's videos of accurately dressed victorian ladies on youtube that show you could store and perfectly hide a whole wine bottle plus two glasses in these (though the glasses were there more for the size, I don't think you'd risk sitting on them lol). So what looks to us like weird cartoon magic may have roots in reality.
pockets are a must-have in all my skirts. and I know the struggle with the skirt length. my skirts always turn out to be a bit too short for my liking in the end, despite me adding to the length of the pattern pieces and using my dress form for pinning the hem. it's so frustrating.
Do you wear Victorian/Edwardian skirts? Isn't sitting down a problem with a full pocket? As this pocket is positioned toward the back, it would be very uncomfortable to sit on it and I would break its content. I have to lift it before sitting down. And I can feel it all the time even when it's empty, it's very annoying.
@@APenchantforSewing yes I wear late victorian skirts. my skirts have 7 gores and I put my pockets between the side front and the side back panels, so they're not too far back but centered on my sides. I manage to make the pockets pretty discreet, they're invisible from the outside and don't cause problems while sitting down. I use the 1889 walking skirt pattern from Truly Victorian and just add the pockets by myself.
Thanks! It's not the best skirt I've ever made. It's not my size unfortunately. I either misunderstood the instructions (very possible) or something else went wrong because I ended up with a very badly fitted skirt. I think I was wearing my (too) small bum pad and my thick flannel underskirt. I never wear a corset so I always take that into account when I draft or fit my clothes. This skirt would need an awful amount of hip padding, which I don't want to do without wearing a corset because I wouldn't be able to achieve a smooth silhouette. I've actually been thinking about refitting the skirt. What I usually aim for is having skirts that can be worn with or without a small bum pad where the inexperienced eye would not notice the presence or lack of said bumpad. I try to dress historically inspired, not historically accurately. Why you might not realise that this skirt is not my size at the hips is that the linen fabric has a lot of structure and can keep a shape pretty well even when unsupported.
@@APenchantforSewing I can imagine. I found the account at the NPS site particularly interesting. Thank you for the link, and I've downloaded the book!
Hi! Such an interesting video. Thank you so much for sharing your process, thoughts on it and detailed views of your work in progress. I am amazed at your hand stitches that is so beautiful, precise and regular. You’re very talented! I do have a question, because something puzzles me : when you do your backstitch at 6:40 and show us the result from the good side (the one that faces you when you stitch) the result is those marvellous tiny regular stitches, with a very small separation between them. But than, at 6:50, you turn your work to show us the “back side”(under side) of you backstitch and… surprisingly, it looks exactly like the good side (or right side or the side facing up). I don’t get it? They look the same front and back. How is that possible ? When I do backstitches, the underside isn’t so pretty because I get all those long threads overlapping each other, without any space between them. Hum… perplexe am I! How do you do it ? I would love it if you could make a video to show us closeup of both side? Would love to achieve your stunning result! Thank you so much (I saw in an other video where you show old thread from your grandparents and notice is was from Hungary. Are you Hungarian?)
Hi! I am as is your surname. :) As for the other side of my backstitching, it is usually so ugly that I don't let my viewers see it. It's something I find very hard to accept, and that's why I like felling. In this video it looks quite nice because I had to stitch through four layers. The thicker the fabric, the neater the other side is. You may also want to experiment with thread and needle sizes. But nothing is as effective as felling. :)
Hi! Thank you for your kind response. This is so interesting that I’m definitely going to test this with multiple layers of fabric, needle size and threads! Thank you for the hint of your experience. And so nice knowing that the backside of the backstitch is usually normally not so pretty ;-). It’s also good to know that felling is as effective as the backstitch : I’m not an experience handsewer (yet!) and I would have though that assembling has to be done with the backstitch for solidity. Have a great day!
Hello, I mean when you fell the seam it hides the ugly side of your backstitches. I sometimes use a combination of two or three (tiny) running stitches and one backstitch. It's a relatively quick way of sewing seams, I sometimes do it on the seams of my underwear.
You may hate pockets because they're not as intuitive as they seem - they aren't installed the same way in modern clothing as in walking-skirt era. The top, sloped edge is not the entry to the pocket, merely more room vertically within the skirt. That short edge is kept folded, and a bit of twill tape added between it, which is then anchored (at the correct distance down) within the waistband. The entry to the pocket (the long vertical) is then sewn as you attempted to do, with the last 5-6" either sewn fully into the seam (so it doesn't flop around) or just french seamed like the bottom edge. The lower edge of the slope can also be anchored via twill tape, if you expect to hold extra heavy things. Try reinstalling your pocket! They're not terrible, I promise.
Thanks but I hate pockets because they are ugly. Even the most perfectly attached pocket is ugly. I simply don't like them and there's no way of fixing that. I don't need them except on winter coats to carry tissues. So they really aren't worth the bother for me. I undertand almost everyone else likes them but we can't all be the same.
@@APenchantforSewingI am absolutely fascinated by this comment. I've never seen someone who doesn't like pockets. That's not a bad thing, I guess, just very weird to me. But like you said, we're all different.
Great tutorial. You are correct to always buy quality fabric. It makes all the difference in the garment. Thank you for another great video showing step by step instructions.
Thank you! Unfortunately, I often can only tell the quality after my online order arrives. I intend to wear my clothes for long long years. I'm not a fan of fast fashion. So quality is very important.
Thank you for such a clear video - I have no idea how I missed this one as I've watched all your other videos - as this is EXACTLY what I was looking for. I want to make some walking skirts but WITHOUT the huge bulk in the back - I mainly use a walking frame but also sometimes a wheelchair and if the hem is too full it catches in the wheels of both leaving me with dirty marks on the front panels. This will be perfect with a much smaller gore at the centre back and I even have a couple of metres of a beautiful woollen check fabric that will look perfect and is wide enough to - hopefully - pattern match sufficiently any mismatch won't be obvious. Thank you so much, this really is the BEST walking skirt pattern I've seen, it is so easy to make and adjust to how full you want a skirt to be.
Thank you. Have you made the skirt?
I FOUND THE USE OF POCKETS!!!!! (finally!)
They're HAND WARMERS!!!!!!!
I already tried pockets TWICE (omg miracle), first ones were a disaster, second ones, still not perfect, BUT! BUUUT!!! I can use them in winter to keep my hands waaaaaarm!!!
Who'd have guessed?
The hand muff is a wonderful alternitive
Love the clear pictures of your filming... and the microscopic stitches 😅
I’ve had a somewhat productive day sewing-wise. This was a great way to relax my brain after sewing all morning. 😄 although I think a nap will feel great too😂 I’m looking forward to seeing what other versions of this skirt you’ll make!
I hope I can get more of this fabric. I did the overcasting for you, did you realise? :-)
@@APenchantforSewing I was wondering if you did! I really enjoyed it😄 so tiny and perfect as usual! It’s no wonder you prefer not to spend the time doing that when preparing fabric to wash. My overcasting stitches are large like basting stitches when it’s just being removed later. Would you do larger stitches in that case as well? Or still do tiny ones? Just curious☺️
@@planningtolive_thebestlife453 Tiny ones! Only my basting stitches are big (and very ugly). Even when I start with large stitches, they get smaller and smaller. I have no patience to overcast fabric, I want to wash it ASAP because I'm too excited to start sewing a garment. Of course, pre-washed fabrics usually sit in a corner for months before I do anything with them...
What a fun swingy skirt. I love the pattern.
Thanks! It was a fun project but there's room for improvement.
You are correct about the selvage being distorted. Fabric companies create those just to finish the sides of the fabric. The only ways to fix that are to either pull and clip a thread alongside the selvage and use the space to cut it straight to the grain or clip and tear alongside. Tearing can distort the weave as well. To thread pull, pick a thread, pull it up with a pin or needle and pull it out. If it breaks, use the pin to work it out and keep pulling. Clip the other end of the thread as well.
Fortunately, the pattern often guides you. I had a very hard time matching the pattern to make the corresponding panels look somewhat symmetrical. The weave was very uneven, sometimes there was even an inch difference on the two sides of the fabric. If it had been a plain fabric, I wouldn't have been able to tear or pull the thread, I think.
I like this VERY MUCH! I have a couple of black and white ginghams. I never thought to make walking skirts out of them. This is lovely.
I didn't like the fabric much at first but changed my mind quickly. You wouldn't believe how great this skirt looks with my wild floral shirtwaist!
14:37 I think you're either for pockets or against pockets, there is no in-between haha.
No, there isn't! Also, as this pocket is positioned toward the back, I find it embarrassing to reach in it in public. How could Victorian ladies do it?!
hello! I am the in-between!
I hate almost all of the pockets I have, be they on bought clothes or me-made.
I'm still looking for the perfect pocket! 3 tests down, many more to go...
I don't want pockets, yet I find myself reaching for the non existing ones. I hate having something heavy an bulky in my pockets, yet I don't want a bad ...
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
@@LualaDy Yes, I reach for nonexistent pockets too because my hands are cold. Still I don't want pockets. I'm wired differently.
@@APenchantforSewingWell, everyone did it because it was normal, so there was nothing to be self-conscious about. And well, we still have back pockets today, in almost all kinds of pants for example. It's my personal belief that the giant victorian back-pocket is a big part of why cartoon characters always pull big things seemingly out of their ass. There's videos of accurately dressed victorian ladies on youtube that show you could store and perfectly hide a whole wine bottle plus two glasses in these (though the glasses were there more for the size, I don't think you'd risk sitting on them lol). So what looks to us like weird cartoon magic may have roots in reality.
pockets are a must-have in all my skirts. and I know the struggle with the skirt length. my skirts always turn out to be a bit too short for my liking in the end, despite me adding to the length of the pattern pieces and using my dress form for pinning the hem. it's so frustrating.
Do you wear Victorian/Edwardian skirts? Isn't sitting down a problem with a full pocket? As this pocket is positioned toward the back, it would be very uncomfortable to sit on it and I would break its content. I have to lift it before sitting down. And I can feel it all the time even when it's empty, it's very annoying.
@@APenchantforSewing yes I wear late victorian skirts. my skirts have 7 gores and I put my pockets between the side front and the side back panels, so they're not too far back but centered on my sides. I manage to make the pockets pretty discreet, they're invisible from the outside and don't cause problems while sitting down. I use the 1889 walking skirt pattern from Truly Victorian and just add the pockets by myself.
The skirt looks amazing!
Are you wearing any sort of "shapewear" (corset, bumbap...) underneath it during the reveal at the end of the video?
Thanks! It's not the best skirt I've ever made. It's not my size unfortunately. I either misunderstood the instructions (very possible) or something else went wrong because I ended up with a very badly fitted skirt. I think I was wearing my (too) small bum pad and my thick flannel underskirt. I never wear a corset so I always take that into account when I draft or fit my clothes. This skirt would need an awful amount of hip padding, which I don't want to do without wearing a corset because I wouldn't be able to achieve a smooth silhouette. I've actually been thinking about refitting the skirt. What I usually aim for is having skirts that can be worn with or without a small bum pad where the inexperienced eye would not notice the presence or lack of said bumpad. I try to dress historically inspired, not historically accurately. Why you might not realise that this skirt is not my size at the hips is that the linen fabric has a lot of structure and can keep a shape pretty well even when unsupported.
Alice A. Casneau??? Who was she?
I couldn't find much about her.
www.nps.gov/people/alice-casneau.htm
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_A._Casneau
@@APenchantforSewing I can imagine. I found the account at the NPS site particularly interesting. Thank you for the link, and I've downloaded the book!
Hi! Such an interesting video. Thank you so much for sharing your process, thoughts on it and detailed views of your work in progress. I am amazed at your hand stitches that is so beautiful, precise and regular. You’re very talented! I do have a question, because something puzzles me : when you do your backstitch at 6:40 and show us the result from the good side (the one that faces you when you stitch) the result is those marvellous tiny regular stitches, with a very small separation between them. But than, at 6:50, you turn your work to show us the “back side”(under side) of you backstitch and… surprisingly, it looks exactly like the good side (or right side or the side facing up). I don’t get it? They look the same front and back. How is that possible ? When I do backstitches, the underside isn’t so pretty because I get all those long threads overlapping each other, without any space between them. Hum… perplexe am I! How do you do it ? I would love it if you could make a video to show us closeup of both side? Would love to achieve your stunning result! Thank you so much (I saw in an other video where you show old thread from your grandparents and notice is was from Hungary. Are you Hungarian?)
Hi! I am as is your surname. :) As for the other side of my backstitching, it is usually so ugly that I don't let my viewers see it. It's something I find very hard to accept, and that's why I like felling. In this video it looks quite nice because I had to stitch through four layers. The thicker the fabric, the neater the other side is. You may also want to experiment with thread and needle sizes. But nothing is as effective as felling. :)
Hi! Thank you for your kind response. This is so interesting that I’m definitely going to test this with multiple layers of fabric, needle size and threads! Thank you for the hint of your experience. And so nice knowing that the backside of the backstitch is usually normally not so pretty ;-). It’s also good to know that felling is as effective as the backstitch : I’m not an experience handsewer (yet!) and I would have though that assembling has to be done with the backstitch for solidity. Have a great day!
Hello, I mean when you fell the seam it hides the ugly side of your backstitches. I sometimes use a combination of two or three (tiny) running stitches and one backstitch. It's a relatively quick way of sewing seams, I sometimes do it on the seams of my underwear.
Oh! I get it! thank you for clarifying for the debutant I am!!
That's a fantastic skirt
Thanks! It didn't end up as I had imagined it would, but I quite like it and I've been wearing it for 5 days now.
I sew it within 2 hours. I do things so practical. Yoy go with long way. In the end it looks the same.
You may hate pockets because they're not as intuitive as they seem - they aren't installed the same way in modern clothing as in walking-skirt era. The top, sloped edge is not the entry to the pocket, merely more room vertically within the skirt. That short edge is kept folded, and a bit of twill tape added between it, which is then anchored (at the correct distance down) within the waistband. The entry to the pocket (the long vertical) is then sewn as you attempted to do, with the last 5-6" either sewn fully into the seam (so it doesn't flop around) or just french seamed like the bottom edge. The lower edge of the slope can also be anchored via twill tape, if you expect to hold extra heavy things. Try reinstalling your pocket! They're not terrible, I promise.
Thanks but I hate pockets because they are ugly. Even the most perfectly attached pocket is ugly. I simply don't like them and there's no way of fixing that. I don't need them except on winter coats to carry tissues. So they really aren't worth the bother for me. I undertand almost everyone else likes them but we can't all be the same.
@@APenchantforSewingI am absolutely fascinated by this comment. I've never seen someone who doesn't like pockets. That's not a bad thing, I guess, just very weird to me. But like you said, we're all different.
Tenho dificuldade de entender essa carcela , você poderia fazer um vídeo bem detalhado só dela?
Sim, acho que é possível.
@@APenchantforSewing Que bom 😍🙏! Muito obrigada 😊