yay, such sillies!!!

[mlsdesigns]

I've been working on the hoops today, and boy are they silly! I do love them though, so much! Want to see how sill they are? Then

So frilly!! But luckily the frills don't make bumps under the petticoat, in fact they seem to soften the lines of the hoops, I was very worried it would be the otherwise.


Please ignore the slippers!


I like the shape these hoops give so much better than my old pocket hoops.

So now I need to sew the hoops to the vertical strips, finish the loops the waist band goes through and sort out some kind of fastening. Then I think I can get on with the dress, starting with pleating the back :)

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I figured them out by myself, I put my pocket hoops (made from the pattern in corsets and crinolines I think) on Meg and draped a tape measure round at the level of each hoop, then cut boning that size with extra for 'just in case' accidents! then I put a waist band on Meg and played with the tape placement round my waist and pinned the top hoop on, fiddling till it looked right and hung level, then I measured down the same amount for the other 2. If you like I can measure my hoops to give you an idea of where you might start from?
Otherwise, perhaps you could stand in front of a mirror and measure the width you want, and guess how deep you are from front to back, and use those 2 measurements to work out the rough rectangle shape, then cut that length of boning and loop it round to start playing?
Also, if I'd had any rigeline I'd have used it for paterning, I was lucky I cut the right size lengths straight off, but otherwise it could have become quite wasteful!
You will be sooo pleased with them! They're a dream to dance in, they move so perfectly!