But one of the quickest tailoring jobs turned out to be the most interesting, since it ended up introducing me to a new and super-simple technique for taking in a skirt! Here it is!
You start with a too-big, loose and flowy type of skirt:
Then you pinch the excess fabric at two points in the back, and sew just the very top of each pinched area!
As long as the skirt already had a lot of gathers to begin with, the new tucks are hardly noticeable.
Here they are "in the wild:"
Best of all, sewing each one only took about ten seconds, so this is my new favorite lazy-day tailoring technique! A full step-by-step is available on my blog.
Thanks for reading!
--The Unfashionista
1 comment:
I do this too. It is fabulous for kids too. If they grow you can take out the tuck and the skirt is bigger again.
That skirt is super cute!
Chickie
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