Make An Easy Skirt
Make an easy skirt
Posted by Surf jewels
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This tutorial shows you how to make a skirt from just some elastic and 1 metre of fabric.
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You Will Need (2 things)
- 1 m Cotton Fabric
- ½ m Elastic
Steps (7 steps, 120 minutes)
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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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3. Fold your fabric in half
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4. Sew along the edge
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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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6. Thread elastic through the gap left
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7. Pull both ends out of the gap, overlap and sew together. Push elastic inside and sew up the gap.
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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/