Embellishing The Skirt
I just looked at the calendar and there are only 86 more days till Costume College! Luckily, I've been getting a lot done. Hopefully I'll find time to blog about it as well as do it! Here's how I've been blinging the gown skirt. The skirt is trimmed with the 3" metallic trim that I hand painted. This trim has an iron on backing, but I wasn't about to trust it, since a test swatch peeled off the velvet easily. It did work well for "basting" it in place, though. I had planned to hand sew the trim, but the iron on backing made it too tough for my arthritic hands. I machined sewed it in place using clear monofilament thread,...