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First, let's
make the rectangle that will be your skirt. No need for a pattern, we're
going to be making it by measurements.
Measure from your waist to the floor. This is length of the skirt.
Measure around the widest area of your hips/bottom. Add this length to 1/2
of this length. The total number will be your width. If you instead would
like a full (highly gathered) skirt, add 3/4 of your length, or double it.
Cut one
piece of your fabric using the dimension you’ve just measured, lengthwise
along the salvage edge.
With right sides together, pin down the two long
sides, matching raw edges. Stitch using a 5/8” seam allowance. |
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Press open your seam. |
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Zigzag seam finish the
raw edges of your side seams separately. This is done by placing the raw
edge of the fabric in the center of your pressure foot, and zigzagging right
along that edge. It should keep your fabric from fraying. |
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Choose a short end to be your top. (They should be the same, so it doesn’t
matter which.) All the way around in a circle, fold over 1/4” to the ugly
side of the fabric. Pin and stitch. |
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With wrong sides out, hold your skirt in front of you, with your side seams
at the sides. Find the center front, and make a mark with tailor’s chalk or
a fabric marker 1 1/2” beneath the top that you have sewn. Measure on inch
to the right of that mark and draw a line. Then measure one inch to the left
of that mark and drawl a line. |
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These lines should be slightly longer than the length of your button. |
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Using a buttonhole foot, make two button holes: one on each of the lines
that you have drawn. |
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Seam-rip down the center of the buttonhole to create the hole. Turn fabric
out to the right side. |
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At
your buttonhole, fold over the top of the skirt to the wrong side of the
fabric, and tack in place with a pin. Make sure the width of the fold is
small enough that your buttonholes do not get folded to the inside of your
skirt. (This should be around 3/4” folded over.) Turn your fabric back so
that the wrong side is facing you. Fold and pin the top all the way around
at the width you have just tacked down. Stitch along the bottom edge. |
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To
finish your casing, stitch around the top edge. |
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To
make your “string”, cut one piece of fabric three times the length of your
hips/bottom and 3” wide. Fold the top half to the center, lengthwise. Iron.
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Then, fold the bottom half to the center, lengthwise. Iron. Finally, fold
the strap down the center lengthwise. Iron. |
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Sew
together along the edge. |
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Using a safety pin, bring the string into one buttonhole, through the
casing, and out the other. Make sure to pin down the end of your string, so
that it doesn’t slip all the way through the casing. |
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Not
the ends of your string. |
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Double-fold up the bottom edge and pin all the way around. Stitch close to
the side near the fabric. |
