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Subject: I need help cutting out the circles for the cupcake skirt

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Date Posted: 14:15:47 03/11/10 Thu
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I have already purchase my fabric for the cupcake skirt and I heard from several people you need to cut out several large circles do a rolled hem with fish line on them and stack them on top of each other.I don't want to make a mistake because the fabric was really expensive.Would anybody mind sharing some tips or giving advice on how to do this task? I am making the skirt for a friend's 10 year old daughter.Her waist measurement is 30cm,if that helps.Help would be GREATLY appreciated!

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Date Posted: 14:51:36 03/11/10 Thu
Author Host/IP: 74-32-218-254.dr01.lhcy.az.frontiernet.net/74.32.218.254

There are several ways to make a pageant skirt. I have cut circles and then cut one side so I could sew two to three circles together per layer. My perfered way (only if your fabric is wide enough. You can cut a circle with a very wide waist measurement...then gather. You get the same affect if you add cirlce together, but you don't have to deal with seam lines. Just your back cut for an opening to the skirt and you can avoid that if you make an elastic waistband (But you need to watch out for bulkyness when making the waistband with no opening).
Important note: gather your skirt layers seperatly. DO NOT sew them toghether then gather. Your curls will want to lay into each other instead of standing along and on top of eachother. Hope that makes sense. Other important note: Once you have sewn our individual gathered layers to eachother and put the waistband on....leave the skirt to HANG over night.(If it's made of Organza or Chiffon) If you put the fishline hem in without letting the dress hang for several hours you WILL have an uneven hem line. Once the dress hangs over night or for several hours, you will see the biased sections of the fabric have dropped down in some places several inches lower than your original measurement. You can go around with a measuring tape, and cut the excess or you can "eyeball" it and cut to make even. It won't be perfect... a 1/2" off in places is okay. The fishline hem, will flip and curl didn't ways so you won't see the the slight variation...but you WILL see it, if you don't let the skirt hang first and adjust accordingly after. Hope that helps.

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Author: Lisa J [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 14:53:55 03/11/10 Thu Author Host/IP: 74-32-218-254.dr01.lhcy.az.frontiernet.net/74.32.218.254 I apologize for the misspellings...Typing too fast. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]