Make An Easy Skirt

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  Step 1

  1.Measure your waist (or wherever you want the skirt to sit) and cut your elastic to this length plus an inch for sewing.

  2.Cutting your fabric- double you waist measurement, this will be the width of your fabric and measure from your waist to where you want the skirt to come to, then add 3 inches for waist and hemming.

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  Step 2

  3. Fold your fabric in half

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  Step 3

  4. Sew along the edge

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  Step 4

  5. Fold over the top by 1 cm, then fold down again by the width of your elastic. Sew along the edge all the way around, leaving a gap to thread your elastic through.

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  Step 5

  6. Thread elastic through the gap left

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  Step 6

  7. Pull both ends out of the gap, overlap and sew together. Push elastic inside and sew up the gap.

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  Step 7

  8. Hem the bottom of your skirt and you are finished! :)

  You can obviously make your skirt fuller by having a wider piece of fabric, or narrower by having less and you can make this to any length from short right up to a maxi skirt. The measurements used in this tutorial will make a skirt like the one above, I have also made this skirt in lace, check out the post here and I will no doubt be making more, a nice quick sew.

  Check out more makes and sewing on my blog:

  http://surfjewels.tumblr.com/

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Amberlynn Reid · Kathmandu, Central Region, NP · 67 projects 11th June 2014

Thank you. I'll post a version once I'm done with it.

Surf jewels · Southend-on-Sea, England, GB · 13 projects 17th June 2014

Great, love to see it

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Amberlynn Reid · Kathmandu, Central Region, NP · 67 projects 7th June 2014

Question: where can I get some of those elastics? Will jewelry making elastic work?
I absolutely love this tutorial ! Thanks for sharing!

Surf jewels · Southend-on-Sea, England, GB · 13 projects 10th June 2014

I often buy things like this on ebay, something like this:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1-Inch-25mm-Flat-Elastic-Black-White-99p-Per-Meter-More-money-Saving-Options-/171352660040?pt=UK_Crafts_Sewing_Supplies_MJ&var=&hash=item27e56a1848

I'd say you want something about an inch wide. It depends what your jewellery elastic is like, if it is quite strong and not too thin then it will probably work ok too.

Hope that helps.

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