Heyhey,
as I said I changed some things of the maxi skirt with bleached hem for this skirt, and I wanted to show you what… so here it is:
so I took the pattern of the maxi skirt and folded it into 3 about equally long parts
then I drew it onto another paper, with markings at that 2 folds, and I drew lines connecting the marks, and the I split the 2 down parts up into 3 equally wide strips, the down end is wider
then I cut it into the 3 parts
and the middle part into the 3 strips. I did only a spilt about 0.5cm from the end line of the top part, the ends touching the side-seam again
draw around it
thats the top 2/3 of the skirt
I had markings where the strips end and marked the 0.5cm again
and placed the strips of the down third there
and draw again around the strips and connect them for the hem-line (ignore my chaos around the table;))
I also added one cm to the waist
then folded it in the middle, to control if it was symmetrical, of course it wasn’t and I had to cut back a little
see how it goes wider to the hem then the original I placed on top of it
I made this skirt with a plain woven fabric, so I could cut it in both directions, which was great, since it saved a lot of fabric, plain weave fabrics in my experience have a great look for long wide skirts, because they fall nicely
what I also changed up: I only double-folded the waistband instead of adding any other part, that gives it a very simple and clean look
and here are the pictures of the finished skirt again
I hope this was helpful for you and you are having a great week!
keep sewing and smiling
your TailorFairy
Still love it! What is it that you trace your patterns onto? Looks like paper towel in sheet form!
Its actually table cloth made of paper, for parties and such, I haven’t seen anyone use it for it in a while though. I use it because it is a soft paper that moves with the fabric and because you can get a 2m long roll with 10m rolled up for about 3€.
Awesome work!
thank you!
That is a great pattern paper idea. I was just going to ask what that was too! sewingforme.wordpress.com
yeah, I tried packing paper before but this is just working best for me….
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