/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9488106
I'll try!

1) so if you're making a dress with a shirring panel (back of the dress that's stretchy) sometimes it's kind of hard to compensate for the stretch. What I do is make an entirely separate skirt panel for the shirring panel, a lot of my brand dresses are built that way. So to do this you have two different sections of the skirt. The MAIN skirt panel that is sewn everywhere on the bodice except the shirring panel, and the SHIRRING skirt panel that is only sewn to the shirring panel on the bodice. Attach the MAIN skirt panel as usual. After that you should have the back of the skirt missing, that missing section is your SHIRRING skirt panel. On the drawing the top of that SHIRRING skirt panel is labeled 'A', and the bottom of the shirring panel is labeled 'A', that's because those two sections have to match in measurement. The SHIRRING skirt panel has to fit onto the bodice shirring panel.

- IMPORTANT: the SHIRRING skirt panel has to be wide enough to fit the bodice shirring panel when it's completely stretched out. -

2) Next, flip the dress inside out and simply sew the SHIRRING skirt panel onto the bodice shirring panel. This might be kind of annoying because you have to stretch out the bodice shirring panel to sew everything together. Go slow!
3) So this is where you add your last elastic channel, either by having a ready made channel on the bodice, or you can just sew the elastic straight onto the new seam. After that, sew the sides of the SHIRRING skirt panel to the rest of the skirt. And you're done!
I hope that helped, if not let me know and I can explain more!