Ok, dear people. I totally understand phobias, having suffered for all of my younger years with arachnophobia and acrophobia. Thanks to my mother. Phobias are IRRATIONAL fears that can become debilitating, as some of you have expressed. My acrophobia had risen to a serious level while I was at college, making it stressful for me to walk up all of the stairs required to navigate some of those big, old buildings on campus. And the little house I was renting didn't have railings on the stairs to the basement! Believe me, I felt like a wreck most of the time because of this stupid fear. So I visited the student health department at the university to see if there might not be someone on staff that could help me. Lo and behold, one of the of the psychologists specialized in different techniques to treat people like me. He taught me self-hypnosis methods and visualization, which I still use today. He also practiced some de-sensitization techniques on me which were very interesting. In the beginning, I couldn't even close my eyes and PICTURE me walking over a narrow pathway without railings. I mean, just sitting there in his office, I would begin to panic. In about 6 visits, I felt reborn. Reborn. And much of the work was done on my own, by practicing some simple exercises. With what I learned with the de-sensitization methods, I was able to overcome on my own (for the most part) my terrible arachnophobia....and a good thing, since I soon moved to semi-tropical SC, where the spiders seemed to come only in XX and XXX sizes, lol. So, what I'm saying is: you don't need to let your life be encumbered by an irrational fear. They can be 'cured' in an incredibly short time.

As far as dress styles goes, the two don't have to be the same. No-one would expect a 16 month old to have the same style dress as a 9 year old, just as they wouldn't expect a 9 year old and an 18 year old to be identically dressed. There will be enough "match", if matching is important, if you use the same materials in both dresses. Yes, do the chiffon hem separately to the satin hem. Apart from that it will look better, you will have a hard row to hoe if you try to hem them together AND have both layers hang properly together. Joan has described the fishing line technique a little more clearly than I originally did- you lay the fishing line right on the edge of the chiffon (or a poofteenth in from the edge). I don't understand why you seem to be set on the idea of doubling the chiffon (you've mentioned it in both your posts now). As I said in my earlier post, more layers of chiffon will obscure the underneath fabric. So if you double the chiffon, the effect will be to make the dress look like it is made of chiffon, rather than chiffon over satin (as it would look with one layer of chiffon). In that case, you may as well save the expense of the satin and use something else for the underdress so as to feature the chiffon. (And if you do double the chiffon, hem each layer separately.) As the other Colleen mentioned, you should make the satin skirt and the chiffon skirt sections separately before slipping the satin skirt inside the chiffon skirt and then basting them together at the top and gathering as a unit. Then attach, treating the chiffon side as the "right side of the fabric" for the purposes of the pattern instructions. By doing this the side and back seams of each layer will be separate from each other- they should not be sewn together, except at the zipper, if there is one and it extends that far down. I would wait to hem until the dress is completed and the hem has had a chance to do any dropping it is going to.

If you took a pair of denims that had ripped out at the knees you could cut them off above crotch level and sew on a liner covered by any kind of scarf. I used to have one with print bandanas as the skirt. If I remember correctly, the lining was a lightly gathered a-line and the scarves were sewn at the corners, catching a couple of inches of scarf and overlapping them. It was a PITA to iron! Each scarf had to be ironed flat.

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