Thread: please! costuming advice how to turn this into layered skirt

well not necessarily THIS one as it's already a cape but I'm painting more fabric to use..I can make the panels 45 or 55 inch wide..this is a crepe de chine silk (don't think gauze..for some reason some folks think of gauze when they hear the word gauze)

Am in need of a skirt pattern (or seamstress) who can sew something using this fabric in nice layers..not so much a carwash or petal skirt ..hmm maybe a stretchy over the butt mermaid at the top skirt that flares into panels or layers or something at the bottom. I have the fabric people, just need the pattern :) (I can get stretch crepe de chine but just used the rest of what i had to make paintings for our living room )

eeeeeee !! need!

Ummm. . .

If you could post photos of what you have in mine it might be easier to make suggestions. . .

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thats the problem i dont know :) willgogoogle

Hi Jes, one of the things that I like about the layered skirts I bought from you is the dyeing took place after the skirt was made. That is, it looks like a non-layered skirt until you spin, and the layers come out and oh, it's pretty. One of the things that has kept me from ordering dyed silk in a large sheet to cut up is the non-harmonius result of me cutting and putting one color against another color. That would occur in any non-marbled design, like kata, volcano.

So, perhaps can you paint a skirt that's already made??? Imagine what would happen if someone like me go ahold of the hand-dyed lovely above, cut it up and sewed it back together. I don't think it would look so good.

oh, I just saw in my head your circle skirts where the legs can peek out, hand painted panels of silk, with a bedlah, ohh, that would be pretty.

I am spatially challenged.

yes, but you are funny and witty with words. I can't tell a joke for the life of me. Spatially challenged, you mean imagining stuff in your head?

oh Jes, I don't think I read the part about you needing a pattern, my bad. got overly excited by your painted art and started dreaming.

I found this..it would be similar but more layers, i suppose the effect i'm after could be achieved by wearing two skirts of contrasting colors

it would be really difficult to hand paint it after it's already in skirt form because there is just so much fabric to work with and i wont be able to stretch it ..hmm maybe i could stretch each individual petal but that might take forever. Could it work if i ..maybe painted panels a certain width and length, following the same general painting pattern so that the colors made sense when it was sewn. it might require having a seamstress work side by side with me when i painted, she can advise me on the size of the panels that would be sewn and if she pre-cut them maybe that would work. well i can see in my head the end product (sorta) but not sure how to get there yet :)

am thinking one of the divinity dresses would work well with painted fabric too, in this pic i took the ruana and rolled the edges and pulled/wrapped it around the mannequin..the pattern would be something i'd totally wear

dude! with a monochrome bedlah! but i'm also thinking to wear it for the sake of wearing it too, not just dance

Yep..I have no imagination for shapes in space, thats one reason choreo is so hard for me.

Jes...I like the idea of the petals, but the lycra of the example gives it that lettuce edge look. Plain ole silk may just hang there like seaweed.

Originally Posted by EzmaSiddiqah

oh, I just saw in my head your circle skirts where the legs can peek out, hand painted panels of silk, with a bedlah, ohh, that would be pretty.

I actually do that. I layer a 3 panel circle skirt - 1 1/2 cirles - with at least one solid complimentry skirt underneath. Sometimes two. Then I put on a solid coloured bedlah. Then I tuck the skirt in at different places to add even more movement. Not to mention it helps to balance out the big boobs and short waist thing. (So does wearing my belt as low as is legal! But that is another thread!)

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