dissolvable skirt!!

So after the research of my theme "last romance", I decided to make a tulle skirt. Below is the design sketch of the skirt.

With this skirt, I expect to give a "suprise" when the dissolvable fabric dissolved, so it will be different look between it is dissolved and not dissolved. The one on the left is the look before dissolved, it is a very fitted long skirt with lots of hand-stitching pearls on the top of the skirt to creat a mood of romance, and also reflect to the water burial theme, because pearls are from the sea. But actually the tulles are all hidden inside the dissolvable fabric, so the sketch on the right showing the look after the dissolved, I expect the tulles will come out from both side panel of the skirt when the fabric is dissolving, which will look amazing!



With this dissolvable skirt, a lining skirt is needed as tulle is not comfortable to wear. So I made a very basic long skirt for inner garment of the skirt.


Then the most difficult part of my skirt is coming, I need to gather all the tulle, from 4m gather to 70cm!! I gather totally 6 layers of tulle and then pin on the linning, and I was happied with the effect with 6 layers, so I need to start work on the top panel which is the fitted skirt.


The tulle layer by layer really create a romantic mood that I was looking for. But I need to fix the edge of the tulle, they are not even......



So the above is my toile of the fitted skirt, actually I just pin them together and pin it on the top of the tulles, because I run out of time. Any way, the pattern for the fitted skirt was fit to the tulle skirt. So the next step is to use the real fabric to make the fitted skirt.



The above 3 photos are the finished skirt, it is really hard to do all those hand-stiching of pearls. It took me 2 days to finish all the hand stiching. Some of the pearls were stitched by dissolvable threat, which means that some of the pearls will drop off when I put water to dissolve the skirt. And I expect to catch the moment of dropping pearls in my photoshoot. Overal, I am happy with the outcome of the skirt, it is very close to my expectation and the pearls work well with the skirt and enhance the romantic mood a lot for the skirt. Print this post