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On the high waisted skirt, I'm using a full lining, and on the pink skirt, a partial lining (as there will be ruffled eyelet peeking out under the scallops)

I think that it really depends on the skirt itself. The highwaisted skirt will have a ruffle, as well, but it follows the line of the scallops and it has to be stitched over the main skirt portion (like so), whereas the pink skirt's ruffle is not attached to the scallops and is rather part of another lining. I'm much too lazy to hem scallops by hand-- any time I can avoid hemming a curve, I do. I also think that it creates a smoother and more polished appearance to clip the edges and hide it in a lining and then topstich it at the end, as opposed to trying to fit it all in a little hem.
Using either a full lining or a partial lining has its benefits, based on what you're trying to accomplish, and each has its downsides-- with a full lining, you have to be especially careful of making sure that your seam allowances are all the same, and with a partial lining, you have to deal with the line of stitching along the top of that lining that shows on the outer side of the garment-- not incredibly visible, but it is there (example, if you can spot it) (I'm hiding it by making the lining tall enough to meet the bottom row of lace. )
I'm in the process of doing the partial lining on the scallops for the pink skirt right now, actually, so if you'd like, I'd be happy to take pictures when I am finished with them smile

I work out all of my patterns first on tissue paper-- I can draw a perfect circle by hand, but I check over them with a compass to be certain.
This skirt will be made for a ~26in waist (I don't wear pink, so I'll be selling it once it's finished), gathered to 1/3 the original pattern size (each side is 40in wide including seam allowance)-- I allowed 5 scallops to front and 5 to back. Since it's gathered waist, I used a rectangle pattern and kept the scallops along a straight line on the bottom. Since I'm using tissue paper, it's sheer enough that I worked on the ground over our cutting mat grid to ensure everything was lined up exactly the same. When it came to making the partial lining, I simply traced the existing pattern for the scallops and width and then shortened the length to the desired amount.
I made sure to cut exactly along the pattern for both skirt fabric and partial lining, and I measured seam allowance before stitching for both to make sure everything was even.
Scalloped hems require a lot of detail and attention, but so long as you're really a**l about all of the detail, they come out nice enough.

For the sake of keeping my numbers even, I keep a 1/2in seam allowance for everything, including the scallops. Once I know I have it right, I just keep eyeballing how much fabric is not under the sewing foot (on mine, it ends up sticking out about 1/8in) to make sure it stays about the same amount for the entire length of the seam.

I'm not entirely certain how much I'll sell it for, just yet. I've already posted the headdress that's finished to go with it, but I'm also planning on making a few other accessories (a different headdress, an alice bow or two, and possibly a beret), and including the buyer's choice of accessory in the price, then sell off the other accessories. Depending on time, fabric, and motivation, I may also make a bag to go with it.
Someone had requested a commission for a light pink OP from me earlier in the year and cut off all communication while I was finishing up on the pattern. Thank god I hadn't started actual construction. But is still left me with... 4 yards of fabric + lining in a color I almost never wear. For the sake of some extra cash (especially now that I'm going to China in March), I decided to dig out the fabric and throw together something at relatively simplistic to sell. So it will have a half elasticized waist, both for ease of sewing and to fit a larger variety of people, and the detail is in things like the lace and hem shape, as opposed to the copious amounts of pintucking and hand gathering that most of my personal projects have.
Including shipping and 1 matching hair accessory, I'm estimating around $60, in egl_comm_sales.

I'm working on a flower patterned dress kinda like this one

and I added thick eyelet white cotton lace to the bottom of the skirt part and then did a fancy small diamond stitch over the first stitch, but somehow it got messed up where the 2 ends of the lace met. It would be too much of a pain to try to take it out and restitch it. what should I do? It's on one side of the dress. I'll try to get a pic of it up later. redface

Design sketch for the above detail picture. smile

Thank you!