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No sewing today, but fun things in the mail! Got both my boots and my Truly Victorian patterns today. The boots fit, which is good; the 1882 tea gown pattern is going to take more futzing than I'd anticipated, which is not as good (seam placement, blah blah blah. More on that when I actually post about the dress design), but the underskirt and petticoat look mostly good.

Although the petticoat pattern does want me to use netting to pad out the back of it, and I'm going BUT BUT BUT I don't WANNA use icky nylon net! Trying to think of something that would be stiff but not nylon.
...Organza? That's stiff.
...I'm not using my silk organza. No.
Oh. Cotton organdy's stiff, huh? I did just learn that.
Okay! Barring any Better Ideas...some kind of organdy nonsense it is!

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You can use cotton crinoline-- that works beautifully! It usually comes on a slimmer width bolt (38 inch??) and isn't cheap like nylon netting, but then again, it's not nylon net!

Looking forward to seeing you build this beauty!

edit: like this: http://www.joann.com/crinoline/prd23658/

Edited 2013-08-13 04:24 (UTC)

Brilliant suggestion! Thank you very much, I think that will be perfect!

I have a ton of light pink cotton organdy that I was going to use for my Tissot dress but then I found better fabric and you are welcome to some of it if you want.

Thank you! - I do have some leftover organdy from the fluffy white dress, but I appreciate the offer! :)