Basically I made the exact skirt she does, I just shortened the pattern a bit in the way that she explained. The only difference is the decoration at the bottom of the skirt.
I added the ruffles at the bottom by using two long stripe of the green acetate lining.
I folded them longitudinally in half, then ironed them. I used a long stitch length to stich two lines of straight stitches about 2 cm from the open side. Then I pulled one string out of every stich line to ruffle the fabric. When it was the right length I attached one ruffled stripe to the front, one to the back, folding the edges in and overlapping the two stripes slightly at the edges. I attached them from the wrong side.
I then used the satin double sided tape to cover the attaching seam: I opened the tape up, sewed in the middle fold on the stitching. Then I folded the tape close and used the slip stitch she describes to sew it shut.
Plus I think what was omitted in the class is the cleaning up of the seams: I serged all of the seams inside in the end. And not together, like in the book, but each side seperately. With the heavy wool fabric, sewing the side seams together looked really ugly and bulky.Basically I made the exact skirt she does, I just shortened the pattern a bit in the way that she explained. The only difference is the decoration at the bottom of the skirt.
I added the ruffles at the bottom by using two long stripe of the green acetate lining.
I folded them longitudinally in half, then ironed them. I used a long stitch length to stich two lines of ... Read full instructions »Difficulty:
I used a brown wool fabric, green acetate for lining and the little ruffles on the bottom, bias tape for the waistband and a green satin double folded tape to decorate waistband hem.
This project was made as part of a Craftsy course:
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