In my last post I mentioned that the non-birthday girl always gets a skirt from the leftovers of the birthday girl's dress. Mooper wanted to play around while I made help make her skirt this year, so I needed something quick and simple. I went to my go-to circle skirt tutorial from Dana Made It. This skirt is fast to make because there's no casing for the elastic - you simply sew the elastic straight onto the skirt.
The only time consuming part of this tutorial is the hem. Even with a teeny-tiny skirt for a 3-year-old, the hem on a circle skirt can take some time, and I knew Moops wouldn't have the patience to wait.
So I decided to line the skirt, attaching the lining at the hem first.
I cut the lining out just as I did the main fabric and then laid them right sides together and pinned at the hem:
I sewed around the hem with a 3/8" seam allowance and then trimmed that back to about 1/8" while Moopser did some of her own work.
Next you need to turn the skirt right side out and press:
Then baste the layers together at the waistband:
And finish the skirt as per Dana's instructions in her tutorial.
See the nice crisp hem with no measuring, handstitching, double turns or rolled hems??
The skirt was ready in less than an hour and then Moopsy got her turn in front of the camera!
The only time consuming part of this tutorial is the hem. Even with a teeny-tiny skirt for a 3-year-old, the hem on a circle skirt can take some time, and I knew Moops wouldn't have the patience to wait.
So I decided to line the skirt, attaching the lining at the hem first.
I cut the lining out just as I did the main fabric and then laid them right sides together and pinned at the hem:
I sewed around the hem with a 3/8" seam allowance and then trimmed that back to about 1/8" while Moopser did some of her own work.
Next you need to turn the skirt right side out and press:
Then baste the layers together at the waistband:
And finish the skirt as per Dana's instructions in her tutorial.
See the nice crisp hem with no measuring, handstitching, double turns or rolled hems??
The skirt was ready in less than an hour and then Moopsy got her turn in front of the camera!
Your kids have the best nicknames! Darling skirt for a darling girl! And so smart to line it and deal with the hem that way!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Gail! Mooper got her nickname because Belly insisted on calling her "Maisey Mo Muffin" when she was a baby, and if anyone just called her "Maisey" you'd hear Belly in the background mutter "MO MUFFIN" in an insistent way!
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