My 1930s sewing books will often talk about wash dresses, that is, dresses that are easy to launder and iron up without too much fuss. A garment that can be ironed flat without worrying about pesky ruffles or pleats is to be praised. recently, I made two skirts that one might think of as wash skirts. A friend just gave me a treasure stove of fabric that had belonged to a seamstress. in the huge plastic bins there are some uncut lengths of both home dec and garment making fabrics as well as a few offcuts left over from sewing project. One of these gems was a strip of fabric that was about 20 inches wide and just under two yards long and made out a a lovely dark indigo blue cotton. I thought it would make a good wrap skirt. The fabric wrapped one and a half times around my hips. I added a few darts along the top edge.(Those are the triangles at the top of the drawing above.) I placed the darts where I thought would be on either side of the CF and CB.I added two ties made out o...
sarah in nyc
A blog, mostly about my work making Jewish ritual objects, but with detours into garment making, living in New York City, cooking, and other aspects of domestic life. A note about comments: I love comments from readers, from spammers, not so much. I approve comments before posting them so comments are not cluttered with junk. It may take a few hours before your posts appear. Be patient. If you are a real person with a real comment it will be posted.