Toile Dairy

Cut out the skirt piece.

Cut x 1 : waistband and Cut x 1 : interfacing.

Iron on the interfacing to the waistband piece.

Attach the waistband to the skirt piece, sew a waistband piece to a skirt with a 1.5 seam allowance like the picture show below.

Fold the top edge to a 1.5 and bring it to the stich line and sew closely like the picture show below.

This is what it look like close up.

And this is what is look like as a whole piece. Next step is to stiffen my fabric, cut out and make an ankle piece and attach the string on to it then it finish. ( I apologize there is no complete photo of my design because the waist is too small to fit the maniquin therefore if I was to photograph this, I would need to find a model who have a waist to fit my design.)

At first I was going to use Non-shrinking dope to stiffen my fabric but as my company is suistanable I had a second thought and decided that I would like to use a different method that suit the suistanability and I has found the starch method to stiffen my fabric.

 

While I sampling with my starch, I decided to make my ankle piece ready.

Iron on the interfacing to make the waistband.

Cut out my skirt piece on a real fabric and attach it to a waistband.

This is the starch I used.

Mixed the starch with water until it became unitedly.

While waiting for the starch to melt with water, I washed to skirt with water; this is for the starch to soak evenly onto the piece.

Add the starch little at a time onto a boil water and keep stirring.

As you can see that the starch is now clear, almost like a water.

Stir and check the thickness of the starch.

Once it clear like this. This mean that it ready!

Soak the whole piece.

Drying time ^_^

This is what the result came out like. It is stiffen but not to a level that I was imagine it to come out like.

Now the skirt piece is ready it is time to do my ankle piece,  I decided that I will use velcro as it save time and convenience to change size if this doesn't fit the model; this is also suitable for my design because my company collection is quite sporty so using Velcro remind me of trainers which links to the company collection. The picture you see above is a heavy duty Velcro that I will be using for my ankle piece which you can convenienly stick on the garment.

Place the sticky side of a Velcro onto the fabric.

Stick the Velcro onto the ankle piece.

Over locked around the skirt.

Fold in the hem, using the over locker stitch as a guide and sew closely.

Inserted the invisible zip.

Attached the top end of strings onto the bottom of the skirt

Attached the bottom end of strings onto the ankle pieces.