so i've got a waistband that fits my waist perfectly, with no stretch, from one of my TBOL skirts

i cut it out with the zipper attached, which may or may not (read: probably won't) work

the other materials i have are............the overskirt, which is a mauvey purple cotton skirt i literally never wore

because it's a length that i never really found anything i wanted to do with

and the underskirt: several layers of lace and tulle cut MOSTLY from a vintage dress

that is a size 2 approximately, from a vintage store, from when i was...unattractively skinny

so i don't even want to fit into it again

i have honestly no idea how well this is going to work, if at all

but i want to be able to at least cobble a skeleton together, to refine when the sewing machine is threaded and set up

i kind of want to build a high waist piece on it

and i have loads of boning from other things from when i wore a 2

that i could probably use, but that might be a bit overly ambitious without having a bunch of....idk, i'll try to figure out a way to make it work, because i know what Look i'm going for

full disclosure this is probably going to be beyond terrible and need scrapped

i'm having to make a new waistband

so this is already annoying

but at least vaguely amusing

i think i'm abandoning the waist thing idea because i know i'm gonna wear it with my cincher belt anyway

also i'm not gonna be able to do anything but pin it because i neeeeeeeeeeeeeed to iron this shit before i start sewing it, it's bad

the pintucking idea was a good idea

i may have created a viable skeleton

bagged it up for now, until i acquire an iron and get the machine out, BUT

it looks ok for a pile of literal nothing

i had enough width to pleat the overskirt

and i'm going to bricklay pintucks in all three layers to build volume

rn i have them pinned into the bottom and top layers

just to get a general idea, which is fine, cuz that's something i'll do by hand when the rest of it is done anyway

i should just have room to put in a zipper

and the waistband is the black with gold star fabric from the TBOL skirt

i think i'll eventually find some buttons or something that are also gold stars

to sew over the pintucks on the overskirt and hide them