One Skirt Pattern Three Ways

Here is a simple Skirt tutorial with 3 variations. Amazing how far a simple pattern could go in keeping up your daughter's wardrobe topped up with cute clothes. Get the Simple Skirt tutorial ( with 3 variations) on Scattered Thoughts Of A Crafty Mom.

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Skirt sewing tutorials roundup

 While kids clothing patterns are abundant in the blogosphere, its rare to find great tutorials for women. Here's great roundup for 15 free knee length skirts sewing tutorials for women. Really now, do you still have any excuses for not sewing for yourself? Thought so...

Here's another roundup with 48 free skirt sewing tutorials compiled by Frugal and thriving. For your sewing pleasure.

10 Easy Skirt Sewing Tutorials (Pretty Providence)
10 Terrific Skirts Sewing Tutorials ( Threading My Way)
69 Free Skirt Sewing Tutorials ( Vicki Arnold)
15 Free Knee Length Skirt Tutorials ( Fab N Free)
Roundup of Maxi Skirt Sewing Tutorials. Lot of great ideas here.

Another Skirt Sewing Tutorials Roundup by Angela B.


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Favorite Frills Skirt Sewing Pattern

Here is a cute skirt pattern with all our favorite elements. The big-bow, the subtle frills and the translucent fabrics..this skirt oozes style. Sew the Favorite Frills Skirt with a free pattern by Your Style Rocks.

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Ruched Skirt Sewing Tutorial

Here is a very different ( and sexy) ruched skirt tutorial by Trash To Couture. Rock those long legs this summer in this fabulous number.

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Pencil Skirt from Stretchy material

 Get the tutorial for drafting and sewing this comfortable and stylish pencil skirt over at Cotton And Curls. She is actually responding to a reader's query and showing how to sew it from a stretchy material and getting a great fit without a zipper. A must have if you wear formals to office. I just wish she also had a tutorial for that slim waist to go with it.

Pleated black and white skirt tutorial

Terra from Mama Says Sew shows us how to sew this stylish pleated black and white skirt. This is such a versatile skirt, paired with right accessories, it will work for any occasion.

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Carrie Bradshaw Tulle Skirt DIY

Here is a fluffy tulle skirt inspired by Carrie Bradshaw from Laura of Trash To Couture (guest post at Lauren Conrad) and I must add that I like Laura's version better. Get the tutorial for Carrie Bradshaw skirt over at Lauren Conrad.

Here is another tulle skirt tutorial from Cotton and Curls. Same material and another beautiful skirt.

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Instapocket skirt sewing tutorial

 Sachiko from Tea Rose Home guest posts at UCreate to show us how to sew this cute instapocket skirt with just 5 fat quarters. Those pockets will make any kid so happy!

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Flounced High Low Skirt Tutorial

Melissa of Melly Sews made this supercool high-low skirt inspired by Kimberly Perry's outfit in All Your Life. Get the tutorial for this Flounced High Low Skirt.

Check out for Sewing for Women Tutorials here.

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Slimming Skirt Refashion Tutorial

Here is an easy skirt made by Serger Pepper. Not only is this refashioned from a pair of pants, but the style of this skirt slims you down in appearance. Now  thats what I call killing two birds with a stone.

Check out for Sewing for Women Tutorials here.

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Skirt Sewing Roundup

 There are so many great skirt tutorials and patterns out there that I couldn't possibly cover them all in one fortnight. Instead, I'm doing this roundup so you could check out all of them yourself. Here're some really cool websites compiling/featuring awesome skirt sewing tutorials:

Skirt Week By Crafterhours
Crafterhours hosted Skirt Week Last month and had everything skirts on their blog during the time. checkout the above link for all the tutorials featured during the series. And don't forget to check out the amazing reader submissions while you're there.

Skirting the Issue at Project Run And Play 
Project Run And Play is hosting "Skirting The Issue" party to donate skirts to girls in need. They are featuring a lot of skirt sewing tutorials to inspire the readers for this worthy cause.


Skirt Tutorials Compilation by Max California

A long list of tutorials compiled by Max California. Great resource.

Skirt Linky party by Threading My Way

 Tutu Drive Little Pink Monster Hosted this Tutu Drive with the mission of donating dress up clothes to kids in hospital. The link has compilation of the various tutorials featured for the drive.

I have also compiled some hubpages for skirt tutorials. Here're the pointers:

Skirt tutorials compilation 1
Skirt tutorials compilation 2

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Appliqued Skirts tutorials

 Appliques are a great and fun way of perking up a plain piece of clothing, and skirts in particular provide a big blank canvas for appliques. Not to mention the great scrap buster that appliques are. Here're the tutorials for two fun skirts that use appliques as the core design element:

This bookworm skirt makes such a creative use of appliques. This will forever be my go to gift for a book loving little girl. Get the complete tutorial for the bookworm skirt here at living with the punks.

Here's an appliqued skirt I made on my daughter's request. I simply love the fact that this is one of the few pieces of clothing she begs me to wear, instead of the other way round. Get the tutorial for this Frooty Skirt at blooms And Bugs.

And here's a super clever and cute butterfly applique skirt that I featured earlier.

PS: This is the last edition of skirt tutorials fortnight that started on July 1st. From tomorrow we will start a new series. Although, my bookmark list is overflowing with many more awesome skirt tutorials. I may do a roundup later today just to point you to more skirt awesomeness out there.

Sewing Tutus and pettiskirts

I don't think any skirt sewing roundup would ever be complete without featuring some Tutus and Pettiskirts. What little girl doesn't want them in her stash. So here are some sewing tutorials for these fun skirts:

Happy Together made these beautiful Dress Up skirts for her little girl as well as for charity. I want one of these little numbers for myself. Get the sewing tutorial for Dress Up Skirts here.

I think every little girl would be jumping with joy if they were to wear these pettiskirts made by Ashley of Make It and Love It. Ruffly, Fluffy, Twirly...get the tutorial and measurements to make this pettskirt at Make It and Love It.

As if that much fluff is not enough, here's Cotton Candy Skirt from Simple Simon and Co. A very different way of using Tulle, but with the same fabulous results. Get the tutorial for sewing Cotton Candy Skirt over at Simple Simon and Co.


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Sew Skirts with shorts or skort

 The fun of skirt with the ease of shorts...umm...yes please. Ellen from The Long Thread brings this skirt with shorts tutorial to give you just that.

 Or you can check out my pleated skort sewing tutorial at Blooms And Bugs for sewing this pleated skort.


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Gypsy skirt pattern and tutorial - Sew Pretty Sew Free Exclusive

This is another one of those - bubbling inside my head - patterns. I have seen many version of this skirt, in various sew and shows online and in stores too. I had always wanted to make one, but circular cuts kind of make me nervous.
Finally I couldn't ignore the tiny voice in my head and thought- at the most I'll waste some fabric and an hour ( yeah its that simple...I don't know what I'm afraid of really) let me just go ahead and do it. So I did some calculations in my head, got off my butt and started cutting. Less than an hour later I had this skirt. Honestly, its a real sew easy project. Other than cutting the pattern ( which has only 2 pieces) there's really not much to this skirt. But it looks really cool, and has a nice twirl factor.
I made the pattern in 2-3 years size, which I'm sharing here. More importantly though, I show you how to draft this pattern yourself in any size. It is pretty easy and quick.

Supplies:

Knit fabrics in 2 coordinating colors - I'm recommending knit fabrics because they're more forgiving. Even if you don't get the pattern just right at the first go you will still do ok with the knits. You can use wovens once you're confident about the pattern. Since the pattern is cut in circular strips it uses a lot more fabric than regular skirts. I used up 2 XL sized tank tops to make this skirt in 2-3T size. I recommend doubling whatever amount of fabric you use for a regular skirt.

Elastic for the waistband - I reused the hem of a Tshirt for the waistband in the skirt above, if you want to do the same you will need narrow ( quarter inch) elastic.
If you're making the waistband from scratch you may want to use the wider ( 1 inch ) elastic.


Construction:

Pattern:
Here's the pdf pattern for sewing the skirt in 18-24 months size. Cut 8 pieces ( 4 in each color), use the line that is shown as 'spike' while cutting your pattern. Ignore the 'Flush' line. 


Drafting the pattern:
You could also draft your own pattern for other sizes. It is pretty easy to do it.

First you need to measure the required length of the skirt. Lets call it L1. Now calculate L=L1-0.5 inch

Now take a big bowl or plate and measure L along its circumference. Mark the begin and end points of L. Now take a big paper and draw along the circumference of the bowl, between the points you have marked.

Now draw a 3 inch line starting at the top of the curve you made in step 3.

At the other end of the horizontal line, again place the bowl and draw the curve between the two points. The only thing to remember is that the skirt has to flare from top to bottom, so make sure the bowl is not placed in the same curve as the first one, but makes a curve away from the first one.

Join both the end points. This will become the hemline if we had to sew a skirt with even hemline.

But since we're making a gypsy skirt with uneven hem, draw another line perpendicular to the second curve. Extend the first curve to meet the line we just drew. Lets call this line "SPIKE" and the one we drew earlier "FLUSH". We are going to use "SPIKE" line for this skirt.

Now calculating the number of pieces making the skirt.

First measure the waist and add 2 inches to it - lets call it W

Now lets assume a half inch sewing margin for simplicity.  So divide W by 2 inches. The 'quotient' is the number of pieces you will need to finish this skirt.  Cut half of the pieces from one color and the other half of them in another color. If the number of pieces is odd then add one more piece to make both the colors equal. It will adjust when we add the elastic.


Assembling the skirt:

1. This part is really easy. Basically place convex side of one strip with the concave side of the other strip in different colors and sew with right sides together. Just make sure to keep the top of the strip at the top. If you cut it right then one side of the strips will be longer than the other, thats ok. Don't stretch any of the strips to make them equal, just sew normally until one strip ends. The extra length is what causes all the spikes at the hem. Repeat with all the strips. Join the last two together to complete the skirt. ( the pieces shown above are from another project but the construction is same. Gypsy skirt pattern just has spikes at the hemline, instead of a straight hem as shown below, but you use the same method to join two pieces)

2. For the waistband just cut the tank/tee one inch above the hemline. Measure the top of the skirt and cut the required width. Insert an elastic with the help of a safety pin and sew the two ends together.


3. Sew the waistband to the top of the skirt made in step 1. Right sides together.

Put it on the child. Enjoy the twirls.

If you like this skirt you may like this colorblocked jumper too. It has been cut the same way but with the "flush" line instead of spike. Here is the tutorial for Colorblocked Twirly Jumper on Blooms And Bugs.

Update: The tutorial has been featured on A Round Tuit and Craft Gossip.

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Knit Peplum skirt tutorial

Alida from I Make Stuff shows how to make this knit Peplum Skirt over at Simple Simon and Co. I love love love that polka dot ( don't we all ?) and the skirt looks very easy to make. Go here for the tutorial of Knit Peplum Skirt.

Reversible Circle Skirt Sewing tutorial

Cherie from You & Mie shares the tutorial for this beautiful skirt. The pattern is very simple circle skirt but Cherie puts a great twist on it and makes it reversible. Get the how to over at This Heart of Mine.

Runway Inspired Skirt tutorial

Cotton and Curls sews up this gorgeous runway inspired skirt which she calls Stand and Deliver Skirt. She also shows us how to make it. Go here for the tutorial for Stand And Deliver Skirt.

apparently the skirt is so popular that  she had to update the tutorial to emphasize some steps. Here's the link to the updated tutorial for Stand and deliver skirt.

Cascading Ruffle Skirt Pattern

Here's a very cute, very unique skirt pattern and tutorial by very talented Ashley of Lil Blue Boo. She gives you the pattern and tutorial for this beautiful and flouncy skirt. I don't think you could ever go wrong with an easy to make bouncy, twirly skirt for a little girl.

Belle Layered Skirt Tutorial

 Here's one of my tutorials that I am really proud of- Belle Layered Skirt posted at Moda Bake Shop. The skirt is fun to sew with some interesting design details - like pickups on the outer layer, ruffled hems, coordinated belt loops and grosgrain belt.
Get the tutorial and pattern for the belle layered skirt at Moda Bake Shop.