I’m working on a commission at the moment for a burlesque performer!  This is the first t

I’m working on a commission at the moment for a burlesque performer!  This is the first time I’ve made a crinoline, but since I was a teenage drag queen, once upon a time I owned three.  Turns out I can still rock one ;)If you ever wonder why crinolines are expensive, that is because you have never made one before.  Tulle is super annoying to work with: it’s light and floaty, is both slippery and sticky, and because it’s kind of see-through, you start to go cross-eyed sewing it.And you sew a lot of it.  Crinoline get bigger exponentially.  This one (still incomplete) is a three tier crinoline: first tier, the one that will attach to the waistband is 4 metres long.  The second tier, attached to the first is 17 metres long.  And the third tier… *dramatic pause* is about 75 metres long (each tier is only 13cm tall).So yeah: it’s a fuck ton of hella stressful annoying work.  And then you finish.  And it’s amazing.  And ten minutes flouncing around in a crinoline is suddenly worth ten hours making one. -- source link

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