Circle skirt + Petticoat. One of my favorite projects I've made for myself is still my Senoritas circle skirt, but I've never been quite satisfied with the way it hangs. A couple months ago, I finally decided to do something about it. Rather than be sensible and wait to buy a few yards of tulle on sale, I jumped online, found a great deal and bought a 40-yard bolt of it (Paper Mart has great prices, and I am quite happy with the quality, even after a couple machine washes). I scoured Pinterest and Google for a tutorial I liked and ended up going with a blend of the elastic waist version from The Sewing Lab but was also really impressed by the elegantly made version from sugardale. Ultimately, I leaned a bit more towards prior, with a few changes. Best of all, I LOVE the way it adds fullness to my favorite circle skirt! The Sewing Lab: Tutorial: Petticoat.
I was looking for a petticoat to wear under retro dresses and wasn't finding anything ready-made online that I liked. Or if I liked it, I didn't care for the price tag*. So, I decided to sew one, but I couldn't find any patterns. Here is why: this is dead simple to make for not very much money. It took me about a full day to complete. There are tutorials online, and I found a couple excellent ones posted by lovely people who I am sure are better sewists than me. They had super-flexible instructions for variable-tier petticoats any length you want with all kinds of calculations in them to figure out how much fabric you need and what width the tiers should be... phwah (eye roll). The truth was, I was looking for someone to do the math for me.
So, here is a short, simple tutorial on how to make a three-tier petticoat that fits me. If you follow this tutorial and make a petticoat, post a link to it. Materials Needed Elastic - 3/4 inch wide (2X waist circumference + 2 inches). Sugardale: How to Make a Petticoat. So a few days turned into over a week. Sorry. Last week was my last chance to be lazy until Thanksgiving break in November, so I watched a couple movies, read Watchmen, and took a few naps. So for those of you who have a sewing machine, some time, and a little patience here is the tutorial, finally: A few notes to begin: 1.
Petticoats should be made from bottom to top. 2. 3. 6. 7. STEP 1: Things you need 1. 4 yds of tulle or crinoline* 2. 3. 1/4" twill tape (equal to your waist measurement) 4. 1 hook and 3 eyes, or your preference of closing devices 5. *Tulle gets really itchy to sit on, crinoline does not, so I prefer crinoline. **If you use crinoline you will need to get Fray Check; if you use tulle, none is needed. STEP 2: Math How long should your petticoat be? -It should be 1" shorter than the shortest skirt you plan on wearing it with. How long (vertically) should each tier be? -So this gets a little tricky. Another example: If you want your petticoat to be 24", take 24+2(s.a.' 1. 2. 3. 4.
How to make your own Petticoat | This Blog Is Not For You. Finals are over! Hard to believe – I finally have my life back. Well, for a few days/weeks at least. Anyway, one of the first things I did after finishing all the handmade Christmas gifts was gathering loads and loads of tulle again and sewing together the second Petticoat. This time I didn’t forget to take pictures and could make a detailed tutorial. Here we go: THE MATHS (not as bad as it sounds) First of all, you have to decide about the length and number of layers of your Petticoat. Depending on how many layers you want your Petticoat to have, you need to buy about 4yrd of tulle. As soon as you have decided about the length and layers, you have to do a little math to know how much tulle you’ll need. When you figured out how wide the single tiers are, you also want to know how long.
Also, consider the seam allowance before cutting the tulle. For the waistband I just used the ribbon I used for the hem. This is what my simple-layered Petticoat looks like. After pinning, stitch it down. VERY simple tulle skirt tutorial. This skirt has been one of the most fun skirts I have ever made. And it is definitely an eye catcher, which happens to be one of my favorite things about it. Either people think you’re crazy or you are very adventurous. Either way, I love the attention it gets me. I simplified my old version of a tulle skirt (tutorial here) to make it loads easier.
Enjoy! Supplies: 13.3 yards of flexible tulle if you aren’t cutting on the fold (on the selvedge) because your tulle isn’t wide enough OR 7 yards if the flexible tulle is wide enough for what your want your skirt length + waist radius to be. 1.5 yards of light to medium weight, non-staticy lining (i try for a knit tricot of sorts so I don’t have to hem) – try to keep it wide so you don’t have to buy a lot of yardage. Elastic – enough when stretched it comfortably fits around waist scissors pins sewing machine. Hemless a-line skirt. Marigold over at Hideous!
Dreadful! Stinky! Is organizing a summer sewing challenge: make a skirt (or dress) a week for the month leading up to summer. To help those of you participating in this Summer of No Pants, I have a tutorial for an easy a-line skirt. My least favorite part of making a skirt is hemming. You will need 1 1/4 yards main fabric 1/2 yard contrast fabric A 9″ zipper (or a 7″ zipper and a button) To make the pattern: Making a pattern for an a-line skirt is pretty straight forward.
Putting together the skirt: To assemble the skirt, sew the front and back together along one side. To put in the zipper: Putting in zippers is my worst sewing skill. First, sew down the bit of the zipper that extends past the teeth. To add a button (optional): Cut your waistband with an extra inch of length. Pt 1: button down shirts to circle skirt (basic circle skirt) Who doesn’t love men’s button down shirts. For a long time I thought that I really loved to see my husband in his shirt and tie all ready for work. After awhile I thought it might be because he was leaving for the day. Now, I realize, it was really his shirt I loved to see. Now that The Man’s work does not require the same dress code, his shirts are mine. (mwahahahahhaha!) I took five large button down shirts and turned them into a strip-work circle skirt with an elasticized waist. Would you like one too? I am, for reasons of needing sleep, going to divide this tutorial in two parts. A circle skirt, by the way, is just that - a perfect circle when laid down flat.
A regular circle skirt is made by taking a sheet of fabric and cutting a donut out of it. For a children’s circle skirt I can fold a meter twice and cut out my doughnut. Ta-da, no seam circle skirt. For an adult size, or rather, an adult length, a couple of meters of fabric or so can be folded twice. Draw in the semi circle. Kadiddlehopper: Circle Skirt How-to. I know that a circle skirt is pretty simple. Thanks to vegbee'sawesome tutorial I had a place to start. Vegbee's version is great. It features and elastic waist, which is comfy, easy to do and easy on the fit. The only problem with an elastic waist is that it can add some bulk, if you have a significant difference between your waist and hip measurements, which I do.
Let's learn together! The first step is to create your pattern. OK, so once you have your half-circle, you can decide if you want panels or not. The other two pieces you will need are a waistband and a hem facing. Now, let's put it together!! For my six panels, I first attached them together in pairs. Now attach all of your panels together.
Pretty panels all in a row! Once you are all seamed together, it is time to add the waistband. When you finish, you should have a tab that hangs off the end. Stitch down your waistband where you just pinned. With right sides of the waistband together, seam the two overhanging ends. Kadiddlehopper: Circle Skirt tutorial, part 2: 1/2 and 3/4 circles. According to Google Analytics, my Circle Skirt tutorial is the second most popular hit on my blog, and gets more searches than any other page. How fun is that? I'm pleased that there is so much interest! I recently had a question regarding drafting a pattern for a 3/4 or 1/2 circle skirt, and how that would differ. Since there is a bit more math involved, I thought that it deserved a post of it's own. As you probably have surmised, a circle skirt is just a big doughnut, with the waist measurement as the circumference of the inner circle and the length as the distance between the inner and outer circles.
When you change this to a skirt that is less than a full circle, you now have just a segment of a circle (an arc) as your inner and outer measurements, so instead of using the formula for the circumference of a circle to find the radius of your inner arc, you need the formula for arc length. R(radius)=360l(arc length)/2 pi m(angle). If that makes you nervous, don't worry! Kadiddlehopper: Circle Skirt tutorial, part 2: 1/2 and 3/4 circles. Guest Blogger: Amie from Kitty Cats and Airplanes. Good morning CA readers! I’m Amie, and I am beyond thrilled to be here today! I’ve been following Linda for a long time now and I’m always inspired by her creative mind.
Though I’m no stranger to crafting, I am relatively new to the world of craft blogs! My family blog was getting clogged with excessive crafts, so now I have my own corner of the internet called Kitty Cats and Airplanes where I post lots of crafty tutorials and recipes! (I actually have lots of corners of the internet, including a newly opened Esty shop!) So come say hi, I’d love to have you. ———————– Now, I know the elastic waist skirt is not a new concept, (seriously, I just googled it and came up with almost 300,000 results!)
Thank you, black lace and elastic. Getting started is by far the hardest part, because unless you’ve got a fifth grader lying around you’re going to have to do some math. Get a measuring tape and measure around your hips. With those two numbers you are ready to make your skirt! Woo hoo! Easy DIY Circle Skirt | Tate Creates. Skirts are one of the things I make most for myself… they are SO quick and easy to make, and for me a high-waisted short skirt is pretty much a uniform. The best thing is that you could make a skirt out of the craziest print or the most basic fabric and it will always help make an outfit look just a little extra “put together.” There are a million ways to make a skirt. So today I am just going to focus on a circle skirt. The most iconic circle skirt out there is the poodle skirt that you most likely had as a costume when you were a kid… if not you should be really proud that you avoided that craze!
Ha Circle skirts can be any length or fabric and every variation will make it look just a little different. Just look how different the two are in images… and the only difference between the two is that the solid one is MUCH stiffer fabric. Before we get started you are going to have to do a few things- first is measure. 1. 2. 3. 4. 6. 7. 8. About tate. DIY midi circle skirt.
I’ve always been in love with designing and making feminine skirts and dresses, I’m sure it is every girl’s dream to make wedding dresses for a living. I’m no exception to that rule. There is something about the feeling behind the feminine clothing, almost like we are visiting and joining in on those past popular fashions or maybe we just want to feel like a dang woman sometimes.
I just get lost in the black and boxy. So naturally I had to make this skirt. Supplies: 2 yards of fabric (I used a heavier fabric, a polyester twill- thirfted) interfacing measuring tape pins iron sewing machine thread scissors Instructions: 1. 2. 8. 6 Ways to Make a Circle Skirt.