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Posted on: 9/13/16 6:26 PM ET
I'm re-doing a skirt that's too youthful for my taste. It was one of my first projects 5 years ago and my eyes were definitely too big for my stomach on this one. I bought Emil Rutenberg wool from Elliot Berman and silk for lining and then made something 3 inches above my knee with a flounce! what was I thinking?

So it's going to Goodwill and I want them to be able to sell it.

I'm fixing mistakes I made. Like the silk lining that's wrong side out, and the wonky zipper. I've ripped out all that, and the waist facing in the process.

While re-assembling it, I thought I might use something like a Petersham ribbon at the waist (under the lining) instead of reusing the facing. I don't sew facing for my own skirts anymore.

I don't have a length of Petersham handy right now. Can I use something else to stabilize the waist?

The stabilizer will be hidden under the lining.

What about many 4 inch lengths of scrap Petersham?

What about selvedges?

I bought a roll of something from Joanne's for stabilizing shoulder seams. I still have some of that. would that be ok?

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Posted on: 9/13/16 7:27 PM ET
You could try sewing your bits of petersham together and see if you can shape it properly. The reason you need petersham and not, say, grosgrain, is because petersham isn't locked at the edges, which allows you to steam it and shape it in a gentle semicircle to fit at the waist and then flare out a little bit, so it hugs your body. Selvedges won't do that, they'll just sit there, flat. You could try what my teacher calls a Givenchy waistband, which is a tiny little narrow waistband--finished, it's maybe half an inch max, if you have any of the fashion fabric left. You make it like a bias binding edge only on the straight grain-cut your fabric, (straight grain), fold it, sew the two raw edges on the right side, and fold it again, stitching in the ditch or with a tacking stitch to hold it on the inside. No interfacing is used in this little waistband, you have the four layers of fabric and that's enough.
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Posted on: 9/13/16 8:15 PM ET
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I am a petersham user and like to keep it in stock, but really if this is hidden, I'd try zig zagging the pieces together but first I'd use some fusible interfacing to hold the pieces together. Small pieces of interfacing are fine
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