Well Ricky, You’re certainly doing an excellent job. I thought that to help you cut back on your “trials and errors” approach,  I’ve put a little tut on creating a bell skirt in Rhino with folds that you can customize to your liking. The tut is “little” in the sense that it does not cover everything just some highlights of the process but even then I couldn’t fit it all into one post due to the site size limit. The illustrations are not of the best quality since the images needed quite a bit of optimization to get them within allowable limits, but I hope they are of some help to you.

 

Illustration #1- we bring in our zeroed Poser figure.

 

Illustration #2 - bring up the layers dialog and create a new layer by clicking the new layer button and make it active by placing a check mark in front of it.

 

Illustration #3 - we change the new layer’s color by clicking in the color box in the layer dialog in this case I chose magenta.

 

Illustration #4 - we maximize our top viewport, make sure snap is off (F9) and select the control point curve tool shown.

 

Illustration #5 – in the top viewport start putting down the control points to outline the folds in the new layer as they would appear along the bottom fringe of the dress when viewed from above. Make the shape as wide and as deep as you would like the bell to be at its bottom most edge. This is a rough draft of the curve.