Make A Waistband From A Recycled Tie post 622
Searching Ror A Replacement Waistband Taking clothes out of storage, after moving from one country back to another, I found some old clothes. Lovely clothes. But alas, some of the skirts were too small. Maybe I had grown larger, Maybe I had made a mistake buying on the internet. I needed to make alterations. I had pleated skirts to alter, and skirts with gathers, and tight skirts with very little spare fabric. Missing Waistband After Alteration I had made one skirt wider by removing the waistband and flatterning out the gathered part. When I put back or left on the waistband, half of it was missing. I could have taken off all the waistband. I decided to leave part of it at the back. Insert a small contrasting section at the front. I could have hidden the new part at the back under a long jacket, but that would have left gathers at the front. I wanted the skirt flat over my front, with more give at the back when sitting down. Cutting The Tie I was looking for a piece of wide ...