What are you working on?

​Currently, my goal is to make all of my dress lengths into various ensembles before purchasing any more fabric.  With this particular fabric, I decided to recreate this mid-late 1860’s gown shown in the book Sous L’Empire des Crinolines.  I don’t have enough of the fabric to make the under and overskirt out of the same fabric, but I found the exact same colors with a wider stripe for the detachable overskirt.  Without the overskirt, the gown will be usable for balls and slightly earlier events.  As I always do, I started with the skirts.  I cut my panels, stitched them, added the facing, and hem.  However, when I tried to balance the skirt, it was too short.  I am not sure how this happened, I have not grown taller in at least 20 years.  So, how to fix it… With the lovely horizontal trim on the skirts, I have an option.  I will slice the skirts under the trim to lengthen the dress about two inches.  Not looking forward to this, but I am not ready to throw in the towel on this dress yet!  Everyone makes mistakes. Tricks and fixes are visible on a lot of extant gowns, so it isn’t just me.