How To Sew A Skirt

How To Sew A Skirt

What you need:

A sewing machine. (Mine is a Vivo Singer)

1 yard of material. (Depending on your size)

Elastic. (Any size/color you want)

Scissors.

Pins.

 

 

 Step 1:
Unfold your material completely to one layer.
Fold over Hamburger style or whichever way you want your material to be.
The top is going to be the top and the bottom is going to be the bottom.

Cut the fold.

 

 When you separate your layers they should look like this.

 
Put one side over the other side. Right sides facing each other.

 

Step 2: 

Pin the sides of the two pieces together

 

Step 3:
Sew both sides.

 

 

Both sides will look like this!

 You'll be able to open the top and bottom.

 

 This is what the sides would be like.
Inside.

  Outside.

Step 4:

Decide what you want to be the bottom.

 

Fold up the material as much as you want for the hem.

 

Pin all around.

 Sew the hem all the way around

 Inside.

Outside.

Step 5:
Pick out an elastic

I picked the thinner elastic.
Cut it a little bit smaller than your waist or hip size.

 Fold over the top of the skirt like the bottom.

 

 Make sure the waistband is wide enough to hold the elastic

Pin it.

 

 Make sure you leave a part open to put the elastic through.

This is how it should look.

Step 6:
Put the elastic through.

It takes a while.

Whenever you're done, put the two sides together and hand sew them.
(Make sure the elastic isn't twisted)

 

 When you're done, you can just sew down the material. (Make sure you don't sew down the elastic)

Turn it right side out and you're done!

Havolyn is modeling the skirt I made. :)

Here is me wearing my skirt.

I thought it was a little too long so I decided to shorten it.

Just cut straight across the bottom however short you want it.
(Remember to keep extra length to hem it)

 Here is the finished result!

    

 

 

Thanks For Reading! :)