Robe flamenco partie 4: la jupe

Let’s follow yesterday’s post and continue on the flamenca dress.

We have set the the sleeves in the body and attached them to the lining, what we need to do now is make the skirt, join it to the dress, sew the zipper on and we are ready to hit the street.

I chose not to line the skirt flounces (contrary to the sleeve ones) because the outside is not going to show and it takes too much fabric (I might never wear this dress again for all I know).

1-Sew together all the circles of the same colour so you obtain one big flounce.

2-Stitch a row of basting along the inner curve of the flounce and clip (like for the sleeve).

3-Here is a drawing (very bad!) I made to explain how to place the flounces on the skirt. You see that the first flounce is sewn right side up and the following ones wrong side up with the flounce facing upward (that way, the seam allowance is hidden nder the flounce when folded).

4-Repeat step 7 of the previous post to sew the back the dress (remember to sew each flounce separately).

5-Baste the zipper and sew it to the dress. Attach the lining to the zipper and hem it where the bodice meets the skirt.

6-Hem the skirt and the flounces as you choose (decorative binding, turn in hem…).

I wish you all a nice week and I leave you with this picture (the « real » post is coming in a few days, I promise).