theladyrebecca | (no subject)

I worked a lot on the skirts today. I finished the waistband on the archery skirt, so now that's just waiting for the hem. I also worked a ton on the orange gala gown skirt. I sewed the organza panels together, hemmed the organza, sewed the cording on the hem and then realized it was totally wrong. So then I spent a couple hours unpicking all my stitches on the cording. I pinned my hem on the taffeta, marked where the cording actually was supposed to go, and sewed on two rows of cording. I also sewed the waists of the two layers together, and gathered them.

Below the cording, there will be two 7.75" layers of ruffles, and there's a giant bow at the top of the swoop, which is why it looks so weird now. (I'm also not sure why the cording is flipping apart in the center - I might have to tack that). But I'm having a really hard time trying to figure out what to use to get that rainbow trim. There's a store 30 mins away that has a trim that might work, but it's $6-8/yd, and I need almost 10 yds, and I think that's too far out of the budget. I tried just stitching with rainbow metallic thread, which wanted to pucker the fabric, and I tried painting, which looks fine from far away but looks crappy up close. Any suggestions?

The orginal plate, and my little painting experiment pinned to the skirt: