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an easy custom made skirt
In September a I made a dress for a friend of mine. In exchange she gave me a beautiful fabric from Kokka. I decided to make a paperbag skirt out of it. I photographed all the steps for you to follow. I hope my descriptions are OK, If you find mayor mistakes in my English PLEASE tell me!
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Step 2
Make a sketch of the skirt pieces like the one I made. Decide whether you want wide or small pleats. You will need half the width of your waist plus the width of the pleats plus a seam allowance for each the front and the back piece of the skirt. I wanted to have 5cm wide pleats that means for each pleat I had to add 10 cm. Having 4 pleats I needed to add 40cm to my measurements. If your hips are not very wide you could just add 6cm for each pleat with a gap of just 3 cm. Or if you want really full skirt with big pleats add more for each pleat! I would add lots more than 4cm seamallowence to the length of the skirt. I had 2cm for the top part and 14 for the lower part because I love wide hems.
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Step 4
Lay right sides together and sew the skirt pieces together, also putting in the zipper. (Tutorial for example here: http://www.burdastyle.com/techniques/tuesday-technique-the-invisible-zipper) I didn´t do it that way that’s why the photos are a bit different.
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Step 6
Mark the pleats. Find the middle of each skirt part and mark it with a needle. Fold the edges to the middle and hence mark the middle of each half having divided both skirt pieces in quarters now. I like to have the pleats a little bit more central in the front and therefore moved the two “outer” needles a bit towards the middle (about 4cm- but that’s optional) (Also don´t be confused by the picture I didn´t sew the skirt together until much later wich wasn´t very clever)
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Step 8
Also mark how long you want to sew along each pleat. I have a normal waist but very wide hips and therefore cant have the pleats too long. I only sewn along them for 7 cm because otherwise it wouldn´t fit around my waist and the pleats spring open- not very pretty! Begin drawing the lines at least 1 cm under the hem. If you want a larger "paperbag-effect"t start even lower!
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Step 9
Sew along your marked lines.
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