Melanie Unruh will be teaching two essential foundations for your Victorian or Neo-Victorian skirts, Saturday and Sunday of the first two weekends in February 2025 - Feb 1 & 2, and Feb 8 & 9 - this is a 4-day workshop.
We will be meeting at Lara Beckwith's studio - attendees will be e-mailed the address.
This workshop is for intermediate and more experienced sewers. If you have basic sewing skills (including if you're a quilt-maker), you'll be fine in this class.
We'll be using Early Bustle patterns from Truly Victorian, TV 108, the Grand Bustle Pattern, and TV170 Victorian Petticoats.
The cost for this workshop is $350, which includes patterns and bustle wire. If you already own the patterns and have bustle wire, you can purchase the workshop only at $95. If you are a DVSS member, message us for a coupon code for a discount on your registration. Sorry, we cannot refund registrations; they can be transferred to another person though. A luncheon Tea will be provided.
Please bring the following tools and supplies:
Fabric; premium quality white muslin or Kona cotton, or premium-quality quilting prints
5 3/4 yards for the bustle - can be any color, but light colors/prints preferred
5 1/2 yards for the petticoat - can be any color, but light colors/prints preferred
Notions and trimmings
Bustle - 10 yards cotton eyelet trim (optional)
Petticoat - 1 1/2 yards lightweight twill tape, lace or eyelet trims (optional)
Equipment and tools
Sewing machine and bobbins
Ruffler foot and rolled hem foot
Needles, including a large-eye handsewing needle, regular handsewing and machine needles
Sewing pins
Matching thread
Measuring tape
Patterning paper or interfacing
Fabric chalk or markers
Pencil
Ruler
Scissors - paper and fabric; snips
Seam ripper
Melanie has been creating historical and fantasy clothing for decades, almost every era from Viking to Victorian. Her current obsession is Neo-Victorian dress with a strong historical foundation.