Tutorial for a High-Waist Skirt. High Waist/Corsetted Skirt Tutorial This is a pattern and construction tutorial for a high-waist skirt. These skirts are particularly well-suited to corset-style details, either with a functional lace up back or a decorative faux lacing (back, front, two at the sides, etc). This tutorial is meant for those with intermediate sewing/ pattern drafting skills. Sewingwise: you should be familiar with panel or princess-seam designs, multi-layered construction, use of reinforcing materials/interfacings, and incorporating decorative features such as lacings.
Draftingwise: you should be familiar with drafting patterns for yourself and therefore know how to apply your measurements to a pattern, and how they translate into 2D. You should have some experience with tight-fitting and closely-shaped patterns, princess-seam designs, and different skirt shapes. This style of skirt is a particular favourite for Classic Lolita. Here are some suggestions (or, bad 2-minute Photoshoppings): Basic style. Sew_loli: Millinery tutorial (AKA hat making) Hi everyone! This isn't 100% lolita right out of the box tutorial, but it is very lolifi-able!
In fact, what prompted me to make this tutorial was a few people showing interest in the EGL community, so I figured I'd share it with everyone :) This first link is a Millinery 101 post on my blog: Introduction to Millinery (please excuse what I dork I am in my videos D; ) This will get you familiar with the materials and tools necessary for the process, and how to prep them. Once you've read through that, I have Flat Pattern Drafting! This is a drawn tutorial, but I'm considering doing pictures or video in the future.
It's probably best if you have some sewing or crafting experience, just because I didn't get into the tiny details. To make this more fun, here's a picture of a tricorn I made using millinery techniques: I've post the images for the flat patterning tutorial under a cut for any link-phobes :) Quick reference: You will need... ETA: I'd love to see what people make using my tutorial! F Yeah Lolita: Lolita Tutorials. Sew_loli: Fluffy Petti Tutorial. How to make a Tiered Skirt (warning, big pics of doom) This is how to make a skirt like First: You want to measure your waist and how long you want the skirt. you then want to divide the skirt length by 3. This image shows a rectange the width of waist and width of skirt length, and it had been divided in three along skirt length.
The sections have been marked a, b, and c. Second: You want to make section a twice the length of your waist, section b three times the length of your waist, and section c four times the length of your waist. Their width will be what you got when you divided skirt length by three. Remember to put in seam allowences! You then want to run gathering stitches along the top and bottom of a and b, and along the top of c. Third: Yyou want to gather along those gather stitches. on peice a make the top gathering the length of your waist, and the bottom gathering a bit longer than that.
Fifth: Make your sashes for your bow. Voila! Sew_loli: Loli sewing tutorial roundup. Well, I was just gearing up for a day of loli sewing, going through my bookmarks, when I realized I had never shared my lolita roundup with you guys! I made this roundup for the Threadbanger forums, and actually got some of the links from this comm, but I'd never seen any other roundup as complete as this one is on any lolita community. I hope it'll be useful to you girls to have these all in one place! :) Cutsews/blousesPetticoats kouhiko 's fluffy petti tutorial sophisteacated 's petticoat tutorial pinafore 's gosurori #7 petti tutorial Dresses (both JSKs and OPs)Kimono wa-loli dresswa-loli tutorial stockingshock 's OP with gathered sleevesOP tutorial on CraftsterJSK tutorial on Craftster (scroll down) BloomersGosurori bloomersPillowcase-to-drawers recon (gather bottoms to make bloomers) kowaikoneko 's bloomers Hats, Headdresses, and HairMini top hat tutorial fuyou 's mini top hat tutorialRibbon and bead crown agentscuiy 's beaded crown layer_cake_lie 's Alice bow tutorialHow to make silk roses.