Sewing a Paneled Skirt

It is a new year and time for new things. I figured a festive new skirt might be in order to set the tone for the new year. In today's blog I show you how to cut and make this skirt for yourself. The truth is, that I made two of these; one for me, and one for my mom.

I walked into a fabric store and bought this fabulous collection of fabric.

I did not have a pattern, but I had a fairly good idea of what I wanted to do. This pattern can not be cut on the fold, but has to be cut single. This is what gave me the idea of making a skirt for my mom as well. It seemed a silly waste of fabric to cut two of these awkward shaped from  piece of fabric, when four would fit so nicely across the width of the fabric.

These are two shapes I would use as patterns for the rest of the cutting.

A second fabric.

A third fabric.

A fourth fabric.

A fifth fabric.

Finally, a sixth fabric to cut the panels from.

I then cut a semicircle from paper, 29,5 cm in radius.

I cut 12 pieces of these from red netting.

These 12 pieces were then cut into quarter circles, with 12 quarters for each skirt.

All that was left to cut, was the waistbands for the skirts.

I started by folding the waistband in half and sewing one end closed.

The other end of the waistband was sewn like this.

Overlock/zigzag all of the panels.

Pin the panels up to only to 31 cm from the hem of the skirt.

Sew two panels together up to the 31 cm mark.

Iron the panels open. Find a 20/25 cm zipper.

Pin the zipper to the seam.

Sew the zipper into the skirt.

Open the seam over the zipper.

Pin the netting to the opening at the bottom of the seam.

Sew one side of the netting to the seam.

Sew the other end of the netting to the seam.

Once all of the panels are sewn together, sew the waistband onto the skirt.

Set your machine to do top stitching.

Fold the other end of the waistband in and sew with a neat top stitch.

Sew a buttonhole.

Sew a button onto the waistband.

Add loops to the waistband to hang the skirt on a hanger.

Fold rolled hems at the bottom of the skirt.

Hem the skirts.

What the skirts looked like when finished.

You can also watch a compilation video of the steps on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/iVcCAZK0VN8

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