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DIY Maxi Skirt Tutorial

Today we sew a maxi skirt!

What do we need? I have 3 metres of Black Lace Fabric, 2 meters of Plain Polycotton Fabric in Black and 70 cm of elastic.

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Adjust the elastic, top and hips dimensions to your body. Measure your waistline and take all that elastic.

We cut out all the elements.

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Then we sew the elastic. First do the edges with straight stitch.

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Next put the sewn in gum on the other side.

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Then sew the edge again.

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And sew the fold flat.

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We sew the lining on the sides and sew the bottom edge.

Let's take frills. We sew all the sides.

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Now we have to wrinkle them and sew them together. I mark at the top of flounce II, III, IV and V a 2cm belt.

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Then I loosely sew (like for basting) the entire flounce along this belt.

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Next I gently pull the thread so that the frill has a crease.

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I mark the sides, middle of the front and back on the first and second flounce.

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I evenly attach the flounce.sewing diy

I fasten in a way that the flounce I is on the bottom and II on the top with a 2 cm piece protruding. I staple it.

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I repeat it in turn with all the frills. This material is good to sew because we don't have to finish the edges.

We have already made the lining, rubber and our frill top.

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Then we sew the lining with the upper, put it right to right and pin.

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... and we can sew it!

We put our elastic from the inside.

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We pin it at the edge of the elastic.

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Now you need to focus - we sew in the elastic. You probably noticed that we have a lot more material than the length of the elastic. To sew it well, we need to put our skirt under the machine and make a seam in a place of pins (elastic edge - do not sew it, sew at the very edge!) We have to stretch the material tightly to sew flat.

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diy how to sew a skirt

The sewn-in elastic should look something like this:

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 If you do not feel confident with the pins, you can also baste any seam. If you are just starting the adventure with sewing this is a better solution.

Our skirt is ready!

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diy how to sew a skirt

You can also use other materials from our site, e.g.

Yellow Lace Fabric

Light Cream Lace Fabric

Pale Mint Lace Fabric

Cream and Gold Lace Fabric

 

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4 Responses

Jane

Jane

April 05, 2023

This skirt is really lovely and a simple thing for people to start with but personally I would have preferred it to be a You Tube video link, so we could see some of the skills in live action. They would also build into a lovely library and members of the Great British Sewing Bee facebook Group would love them, it would undoubtedly increase sales of your fabulous fabrics.
Hope thats helpful?
Jane

Rashida Hussain

Rashida Hussain

August 27, 2021

You are a fantastic person. Not every one will do some thing like this for free. Thank you for the tutorial, even though i didnt try to make the maxi skirt, as i dont really wear skirts. I read all the instruction for knowledge. And it was well discribed. Thank you

Sheila

Sheila

August 27, 2021

Beautiful I’m gonna give that a go love the lenght

Jane

Jane

August 27, 2021

Thank you for sharing this love skirt, inspired to find how to make much more choice than shopping for skirts, especially as designing things and making yourself gives greater joy. Kind regards Jane . Enjoy your precious weekend hope you guy’s are well . Keep smiling love your hard work and encouraging others to make things as special effects as this lovely design. Many thanks.:-)

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