sewing ballet skirts??

Question

my friend told me if i wanted her to she would teach me how to sew. i was thinking i could start sewing my ballet skirts. does anyone else do this that knows how easy/hard it is or has any more info about it?

Answer 1

It is really not that complicated and very fun. I am guessing you are making the tutu skirt (the long one). Scissors, Fabric cutting scissors, Embroidery scissors, and seam rippers are needed. Never, never, never use polyester, single ply cheap thread. For the sewing, professional fasteners can be purchased. When sewing, use the longest pins you can find. Measure the waist, the upper hip, the lower hip, and the stride before you start sewing and cutting. The longest it would ever take is about 10 hours, but that is not regular. It should take you about 6 or 7 hours to finish it all. I think it is best to make your own costumes, and I do for many things. Good luck with your sewing!

Answer 2

It is not hard and a lot of fun. Ballet skirt is a good place to start. It is not very complicated piece of clothing, and you won't waste a lot of fabric in case you don't get it right the first time. But once you got it, all your dance clothes can be custom made, and you become your own designer. When people take sewing classes, skirt in fact is one of the first assignments because they are pretty easy to make.

Thin fabric is harder to work with, but you can't pick cotton for ballet. So it will be harder. When picking fabric, find something that doesn't fall apart at the edge too much, or it will be even harder. You might want to consider making something out of cotton first, just for practice and just to get the idea.

It is possible to sew it by hand, but it requires a lot of practice to do a good job with it. It is better if you can borrow a sewing machine.

I make most of my ballroom costumes myself, even the dresses for Standard which are long and have full skirt and fitted bodice and lots of rhinestones.

Good book is "Patternmaking for Fasion Design." It tells you how to take your measurements and how to construct a pattern out of them. For a simple wrap-around skirt, you don't need this fancy book though.

Good luck and have fun with it.

Answer 3

well, I know that sewing with that kind of material is rather hard, if youre doing hand sewing, I dont think I would advise it, the holes between the fibers are very small, so you'd need an itty-bitty needle and some thin thread that wouldn't snag on the fabric. also, you would need to hem it, because that material frays very easily. I dont know about sewing with a machine, but I think handsewing wouldn't work.

Answer 4

The basics of sewing are fairly easy to master. However, working with certain fabrics, particularly those that are either elastic or thin - is geared for a more advanced sewer.

I would recommend simple projects, that work with basic stitches, and cotton fabrics - then slowly move up to more detailed projects.

Answer 5

Given that you are a novice I would avoid starting with silk as it is so slippy both by hand or machine. Cotton is a good material to start with

Answer 6

i had my mom stitch one up as a gag present for somebody - it grew to become into great ordinary... i grew to become into nonetheless uneasy approximately making use of her sewing gadget by way of fact i kinda had blown up the final one... oops. yet you additionally could make it great ordinary with double up tulle and a ribbon, or i'm particular you could verify nicer ones. like i mentioned, it grew to become right into a gag present so we made it great ordinary.