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Lace Bustle Skirt

A fancy bustle skirt with a train

https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/lace-bustle-skirt • Posted by killbylaughter

This is for a steampunk/Weird West inspired Ironette (the dancers from Iron Man 2) I'm doing. I left the skirt open in the front and will make a separate under skirt for it. Instead of having a short bustle skirt, I made a long one with a train (the bottom panel is about as long as I am tall!). There are 6 panels total. I edged all of the panels with lace trim in order to avoid having to hem the lace fabric. The project itself wasn't so hard, but it was time consuming and I broke 5 needles on my machine trying to sew through the 6 layers of bunched lace plus two layers of interfaced satin (for the waistband).

You will need

Project Budget
Getting Pricey

Time

8 h 00

Difficulty

So-so
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Description

This is for a steampunk/Weird West inspired Ironette (the dancers from Iron Man 2) I'm doing. I left the skirt open in the front and will make a separate under skirt for it. Instead of having a short bustle skirt, I made a long one with a train (the bottom panel is about as long as I am tall!). There are 6 panels total. I edged all of the panels with lace trim in order to avoid having to hem the lace fabric. The project itself wasn't so hard, but it was time consuming and I broke 5 needles on my machine trying to sew through the 6 layers of bunched lace plus two layers of interfaced satin (for the waistband).

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