Dec
18
Sunni from A Fashionable Stitch shares a tutorial on her blog showing how to add a petersham ribbon waistband to a skirt. Petersham is a ribbon that looks like grosgrain, but the differences in fiber content weave make it softer and less stiff than grosgrain. (Read more about grosgrain vs. petersham here.) Get the tutorial.
[photo from A Fashionable Stitch]
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