Suggestions & opinions on a sewing project, please?

[cupcake_goth]

As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm working on making a version of this skirt:





The bottom of the skirt: it looks to me like it's about a 3" - 4" band that is NOT gathered (no ruffling), but is scalloped along the bottom, with the bottom edge trimmed in small black ball fringe. Is that what it looks like to the rest of you?

Also, should I find small black ball fringe to put on my version? I think it looks darling in the photo, but I'm worried that in Real Life it will look a bit twee. (Yes, stroppy_baggage, I'm kind of assuming that you don't like the ball fringe and would prefer that I didn't copy it.) What do you people think? If I don't copy the ball fringe, I would probably edge the scallops in narrow flat black lace.

(I've already got the body of the skirt sewn. I just need to add a waistband and zipper, and then cut out and sew the bottom band. I'm getting faster at skirts, and good LORD, how did I do anything before without a serger?)

Comments

[gingerk.livejournal.com]

My mother put ball fringe on a number of curtains back in the day. They do not wash well and the balls mate all the time and you have to keep untangling them.

The skirt looks like velveteen and taffeta to me and it looks like there's some kind of trim (tatting? narrow lace?) on the top of the black band. You could repeat that on the hem, although adding trim to the scallops is going to be a bear.