Sewing Mistakes 🧵 Sewing Fixes 🧵 Circle Skirts

[@NoraMurrell]

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[@ecummins8650]

There are no mistakes, only unexpected opportunities for embezzlements! Great save of a project!

[@NoraMurrell]

THIS. All if this. Exactly. Every mistake can become a design feature!

[@laurawilliams7782]

this video was a great start to my day.

[@NoraMurrell]

I woke up to this comment. Thank you. Also a lovely start to my day.

[@bohemiansusan2897]

Turned out cute. Thanks for sharing this journey with us.

[@NoraMurrell]

Thank you so much 🤗

[@katelafontaine7119]

I have absolutely done the pleat save on a skirt before.

[@NoraMurrell]

Thank You. I hate being alone in mistakes.

[@MichelleSMV]

It’s so swishy! I made a panelled circle skirt the other day but I have yet to properly finish the hem lol

[@NoraMurrell]

Hemming and watching TV is a favorite passtime at this point for me. HA. I just have a lot of hemming.

[@PatriciaHodder-jq3il]

I like the skirt I have wide hips but for a slim person like your self it look nice.

[@joclark3702]

Great save!!!

[@NoraMurrell]

Thank you!

[@yc70jade]

I needed this! I recently made a dress from a vintage pattern. Didn't particularly like the fit but I love the fabric, so it's now being deconstructed into a 2 pieces, just finished ripping out the French seam skirt to be taken in because for some odd reasons....there's a 2" ease. Still deciding if I want to make the bodice into a tie shirt or button closure 🤨

[@NoraMurrell]

What did you decide to do in the end?

[@yc70jade]

I am procrastinating! I did take apart the skirt, modified the side panels & added a waist band, which was an easy fix...just fiddly. I am leaning towards adding loop button closure for the top

[@shirrabunkley7825]

Excellent save, crafty kudos.

[@NoraMurrell]

Thank You!

[@bohemiansusan2897]

Thanks!

[@NoraMurrell]

Wow! I’m still small so this is a new and neat thing, totally make my evening. Thanks! I hope all of your beverages are always the right temperature.

[@PatriciaHodder-jq3il]

Thanks so much for your vedio i AM REALLY ENJOYING IT.

[@NoraMurrell]

So nice of you! Thank You! I really like how this skirt turned out. It has a lovely sound and feel to it.

[@margiecook6379]

beautiful!

[@NoraMurrell]

💙

[@michellecornum5856]

Yeah, having cut many circle skirts over the years, I can absolutely confirm that you can cut the exact same waist and be off by as much as five inches. I don't know if it's an act of God or a weird perk of certain fabrics, but I, too, tuck and roll with it.

[@NoraMurrell]

This was utterly wild. I am so flipping confused. I have been a victim of math.

[@JelMain]

@@NoraMurrell Probably why waist yokes were invented.

[@sapphirecamui6447]

No way! what is happening there??? a different dimension/alternate universe???

[@michellecornum5856]

@@sapphirecamui6447 Madness, that's what's going on, sheer madness!

[@ShellyParchman]

At least it was too big, instead of too small

[@NoraMurrell]

There can be so many surprises in sewing!

[@JelMain]

From the mouth of a mere male. measure twice, cut once.

[@NoraMurrell]

This assumes you know what you want this measurement to be considering bias, ease, waistband, zipper, and seam allowance. And that you in fact do exactly as you plan.

[@JelMain]

@@NoraMurrell Put it down to a failed toile, then. You're clearly on the path towards Personal Blocks (Basic Blocks tend towards Market Sizing, but can cross-over into couture), and from there, it's pattern-alteration to suit. Long live Assembil!

[@NoraMurrell]

@@JelMain This is exactly it. All of it. Expecting every project from today and on to somehow always be the right cut with the right fabric with zero mistakes or confusion isn't real at all. AND, with understanding that a fail that can absolutely be fixed AND with future sewing to come, that's when it gets seriously exciting. The potential is HUGE. I could end up sewing anything!

[@JelMain]

@@NoraMurrell Ah, but to err is human, and to correct, divine.