Pleated Skirt

After sewing for other people, I finally have time to sew something for myself. Also I want to investigate how to draw patterns, so this is an easy start project. And I desperately need some easy work with some easy material to find out again that sewing is fun :-)

 

I made the pattern - length according to my preferences, width of the fabric minus my waist measurement divided by number of folds gives me size of one fold. Rounded hips, the width at side curve is hips minus waist.

And hips will be 3cm higher than the center. I attached the folds in the seam allowance.

The belt - stiffened with fusible web, folded 1 cm at each side and then pressed a few milimeters from the middle so that the wrong side would be a bit longer.

I sewed the belt's right side with the skirt. I folded the belt right sides in and sewed the ends.

This is a little tailors' trick to make neat corners - you fold it before turning over.

I made another line of stitches right in the seam between belt and the skirt panel, attaching the wrong side of the belt. I added a simple zipper and didn't bother with folding the upper edge, which was done by hand, I covered the teeth ends so that they don't scrath.

Results? At pleated skirt, the curved hips don't work. The side seam may be slanted, but it must be straight. Also the hips are raised by 1.5 cm at most.

Blue-brown Renaissance Costume - Skirts

Two full circle skirts, one from waist to the ground, the other one shorter with uneven edge.

I cut out twice half of a circle, the inner one with 30 cm diameter.

And a bias tape for rubber band tunnel.

I sewed the sides of the skirt and tape (leaving opening for rubber band), and I serged one edge of the bias tape.

I pinned the tape to the waist of the skirt, right sides together, the serged edge out. I marked quarters on the tape and the waist, and I started with pinning these four points together.

I ironed the seam allowance to its proper position and I also ironed the upper edge.

Then sewed through the waist seam at the right side of the skirt.

I inserted the rubber band and hemmed the lower edge.

Here they are!

P.S.: At the end the color seemed too khaki to me, I made a better (pronounce longer) one that really is brown :)

Bellydance Lace Skirts

Our friend's having a wedding and we decided to dance there. We wanted to make skirts in gold - the wedding will be gold, white and yellow.

The pattern is very simple and leaves the least remains possible. You just cut out a stripe from the fabric, fold it five times, pin the template on and cut five times at once.

It always gives you five big and five small pieces.
I folded the belt in half, tucked both edges in and ironed. I put twenty big pieces inside to get the hips' size minus 6. Then I laid another layer of small pieces, to the middle of the big ones.

 I sewed along the edge. I'd tried to pinn it so that the pins can stay there (quite far to the left).

 And the finished skirt.