My favorite method for making skirts
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- Опубліковано 25 січ 2025
- The makings of an easy walking skirt, using my favorite skirt pattern for a simple and practical project.
Tutorial for this skirt:
• The Most Fabric Saving...
music:
Autumn Sunset
Minor With Cricket
music by AUDIONAUTIX.com
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I've made a better tutorial for this skirt:
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Thank you for encouraging me!
The festive black velvet ribbon made me laugh out loud and feel very seen. Black on black is underrated.
Yeah... unless you are Spanish/ Portuguese and know about traditional wear. They've been wearing black on black from before Roman conquest (as the Romans left written).
Watching this video, I learned I did not grasp the concept of the seam ruler at ALL. This might have just changed my life! lovely video and very nice to watch, and very useful!
It is a beautiful skirt. And it's also nice to see that there's someone who works in the same way as i do when I sew. I hope what I write makes sense. I'm not so good at writing in English.
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Stunning dress, modest yet feminine and beautiful.
What a beautiful light wood floor to cut on! And great process for the skirt. Excellent using a modern sewing machine and NOT sewing over pins. I know. But people do sew over them. Jah. It not only dents or dulls the needle and bends the pins, but you can cause real damage to the rotor point if you sew over a pin and the needle hits the rotor point. And messes up the timing of your machine. I have seen it happen. That costs a great deal of money to replace. And could be avoided like this smart lady by NOT leaving pins in as you sew, take them out just before the needle. Always.
This reminded me of the first ever skirt I made in school and was the only one who finished something that I would actually wear for several years. Half sewn with a manual sewing machine( indeed😅) and finished by hand stitching. Much better than a completely machine stiched garment 😊. That velvet ribbon touch just elevates it all!
I was going to try to modify existing patterns I have, but I feel like that would make it too difficult, thank you for this walk through, it helps a ton, especially for others who may also be closer to the beginner end of sewing
This was a great video, and I love how low-waste this project is!
Well done! I hate when sewists think they have to have a paper pattern. Adjusting patterns is not something I love to do. I much prefer to work from measurements and go from there.
I'm too bad at math to work without one lol
Oh good, I'm not the only one who uses my couch as a pincushion 😅
My thoughts as well!!
I use my bed as a pincushion, that way I get nice little surprises at night
I use my recliner! :) My grandchildren know to watch out for Grannie’s pins when they sit there!
I know I’m terribly late to this video but, I’ve just found your channel. And I love your attention to detail!
Lovely skirt. Love your style.
It turned out so lovely!
Lovely work 😊
My grandmother could have probably taught me how to make that skirt!
She was born ,back in the late 1800s .
Very soothing music and I liked your fabric suggestion. Thank you for sharing.
Great video. Thank you for sharing. It would be great to use lighter coloured fabric, it was a little difficult to follow, but your instructions were very good. Greetings, North Wales UK
This skirt reminds me of a gorgeous looking lady I saw at Joe Hisaishi's concert in Helsinki. She was wearing a similar skirt with a wine red blouse and like this it looked absolutely fabulous 😍
This skirt is gorgeous! I need to make one of my own now!! I also really love the video, the music was so relaxing and interesting! Exactly the vibe I've been looking for!
Yes! Don't understand the circle skirt craze, trapezoid skirts are much more efficient use of fabric.
This is so helpful! I have been wondering how to change the pattern of a cute dress I am making for my daughter. I want to keep a nice full hem, so making a simple skirt (rectangle with gathering at the top) wouldn't work. But this just might!😊
And now i know exactly how to use my seam ruler in my kit! Thank you so much. Would you consider using a braid to bind off the hem instead of having to turn it under and blind hem it? You can replace the braid if it gets soiled or tatty from contact with the ground, and saves the edge of the fabric itself.
When you walked in the woods to showcase your skirt, it reminded me of when I read a post on Tumblr about a man dressing up in a Regency suit and went out on a walk in the woods, then got spooked as he saw a man who was walking his dog, who looked spooked by him too, but the man in the Regency suit walked away, scared and shaken. I wholly think the man who was walking his dog thought he saw a ghost. It makes me wonder if you experienced something like that too, maybe? XD
Haha, no not this far. I'm better at hiding ;)
I prefer the pockets supported by sewing into the waist seam.
When you use pockets you add weight to them. By Including the top of the pocket in the waistband, you add significant support.
Reference: The Stitchery
Seems to me, women’s clothing in that era was so very classy and elegant. I’d love to go back there.
You’d miss your rights and be back soon! Rose tinted glasses are a bit dangerous… But the clothes were lovely! *sigh*
Your choice of music, I like.
The skirt looks very pretty. I wouldn't choose black, but I would like to know what other colors you would recommend. Thanks for sharing all of your hard work and knowledge with us.
Love this skirt thanks for sharing this beautiful skirt ❤❤❤
I don't understand, the waist measurements of the pieces add up to 75cm, your waist measurement exactly in this example. So where did you add more to gather?
Pockets!!!!! Erm, I mean it’s lovely and great job on the video. :) (But seriously, POCKETS!!)
They are importent
Pockets in walking skirts are historically accurate
I personally don't like pockets. Everyone's different.
@@anonymoussource8334 at least there are purses/bags :) and then you don't have to sew in pockets, so it's easier.
Why do girl targeted thing never get pockets though???
Beautiful skirt and gorgeous countryside to model it in
Thank you for this! I love it!!
You have your own personal collection of ticks after walking through the forest with this, but at least it's beautiful
Exactly what I was thinking! Light coloured pants tucked into your socks for that sort of walk.
No, it doesn't look beautiful like this skirt, but it avoids Lyme disease. Ugh, I hate ticks.🥵
To be fair, most women historically would have been wearing very long socks or hosiery of some kind covering their legs under their skirts, along with bloomers/split drawers and/or petticoats. I’ve hiked in long skirts and came back w less ticks than everyone else cuz of long over the knee socks and bloomers. Those who wore shorts or forgot to tuck risked the dreaded Lyme and had to be -deloused- deticked! So barring knowing what’s going on under there, we can’t know her risk level. But Lyme always deserves a PSA! Cheers
Thank you for sharing your method! I was wondering if I could make a skirt from felted wool, but the tutorials I found use felted wool for home decor or bags, not clothes. I'm glad I found your video!
I have so many questions.
How wide was your fabric? Did you have to hang the skirt up to account for the fabric stretching? Even if it's felted, will it shrink more if you wash it? Is there no lining because you use a petticoat?
Thanks again for the video!
This is a feltet boiled wool ment for garment-making. It's 1,5m wide. I know it's not advised to use it for structured coats or just for coats in general because it does stretch. It's similar to the traditional fabric used by farmers called vadmel/frieze(?) If you wash and steam before sewing it will help on the shrinking, but mine ended up widening by 10cm in the top while working on it, I'd recommend sewing along the top to avoid that earlier on. It was left to hang, but didn't change, and worn with an underskirt.🙂
@@NoMoreSilkTwist Thank you for answering my questions! I will use your recommendation when I sew my skirt!
There is also a gertie charm pattern that I think you can use felted wool on, I think it’s called the stanwyck skirt
Beautiful intro
Youre making a beautiful work, i wish i could buy skirts from you.
Hello there, I’m looking forward to repeating your pattern. It would seem you used 2m folded in half meaning 4m in total. Ist that right? Also, can you tell me which flare you used to determine the curve at the bottom? How many cm more did you have at the waist that you had to fold? Thanks in advance for your answer :)
Hi, thank you for asking! When I made this tutorial I didn't think people would watch it, and I explained the steps to recreate it badly, since I like these skirts I'm hoping to make a better one.
Now for the ask:
My fabric is W:145cm and L:200cm, keep in mind my waist measures 75cm.
The hem of each panel was curved by measuring 100cm(my desired skirt lengt) from the top.
My intended with of the back panel was 19cm, I added an extra 20cm when cutting to create a fan tail. It was all gathered down again to 19cm.
Because of my choice of fabric it stretched an extra 10cm at the waist, but wool is forgiving and it doesn't show in the finished skirt.
The skirt turned out amazing! I love the music you chose for the video, however I found it hard to hear what you were saying over it... maybe lower the music volume in future videos?
I really like this. I think that's going to be my next attempt.
Since you have the experience. How much off the ground do you usually measure a skirt for it to be practical. I like the way it looks in the video, and I certainly have no issue with lifting my skirts when I take stairs, but I'm not too sure on how much off the floor it should be (once hemmed, ugh, maths) for me not to step on it or my heel catching on it if I step back.
I hope that makes sense and you'll have an answer for me. 😊😊
The ONLY sure way to avoid stepping on a long skirt is to use a good petticoat, I find the ones that are frilly on the bottom works best.
I try to make the skirt go down to my ankle. Without shoes that is about 5cm/ 2" of the ground. But if you take away another inch it's more of a "working skirt" and still historically accurate, if thats what you're going for.
The hem can be made out of as little as 2 cm or 50cm so that part is up to you. :)
Hope this helps!
@@NoMoreSilkTwist It DOES help! Thank you very much! 💜💜
Another project in my list ahh!
I want to make one using cotton twill( too hot & humid to use wool here). I also plan to lining it with a softer thin cotton/muslim that i already have in stock as cotton twill can be a bit harsh on sensitive skin.
But i have 1 question: is the waist for the skirt cutted straight or curved?
Because i also want to do a bit of pleates in the back around the placket and i want to know if i can just lengthen it or need to do mathematics and drafting inorder to put pleates
The waistband is straight, I find it doesnt matter if its narrow, and this is how it looks in magasine patterns I've found. I did curve the front panel because its longer. But in the fabric I used you get away with not doing that. I made a gatherd back by adding 20ish cm to the back panel. Hope this helped some, I'm planning on making a "summer" skirt as well!
Very interesting watching your problem solving process.
Gorgeous skirt
Difficulty to hear you though, music is overpowering
Question, why opt to add the placket between side and back pannel (where it would be off center) instead of on the other side without pockets? (or maybe you added pockets on both sides and only did demo for the one side?)
Hi! I did add pockets to both sides, which is why my placket is in the back, but you can put it wherever you like :)
this is great! i'll check you other video too. I wish to sew me a skirt like that and have to find the fabric first ^^ What is the tool you use for the hem?? this looks really useful and i've never seen one!
It's a sewing gauge or seam-O-metre :)
Please provide details on the tool you used to turn the hem. Who makes it and what do they call it?
Basicly its a fancy ruler. It's called a sewing gauge or "semometer", I got mine at my local fabric shop, I would recommend searching for it online as I have not seen many people use it outside my own country.
@M Shrade It is a quite common tool in Scandinavian countries, being basically called a Seam-o-mater (and metric). I looked for it in England, but they had no idea what it was. So I eventually found a US (inch based) version called “Seams Right”. But using stiff cardboard or platic, you can mark out the measurements you use most and make one yourself.
I love that tool, so handy! I just had to come here to tell that in Finland we call it "mittaliisa" and in english it translates something like "measuring alice" 😄
@@pienivihreamies96 oh, sweet! I'm going to remember that one. I'm an Alice! 😂
What fabric should I use if I want to make this skirt? I want to be able to wear it in summer as well.
I'd recomend linnen, but then you'll need to do something with the raw edges! I didn't need to with this one becase felted wool dont fray
Thank you!
I just came to say, your chair looks like mini Spider-Man heads. 😂❤
Argh! I have another question! So I've made my own plan with my measurements. I've decided how I'm going to divide the length at the waist so that the panels fall evenly. But.
How do you decide/workout the width of the panel at the bottom? (I assume there are several ways depending on how full you want the skirt but I like the way this one falls.)
Thank you so much!
Simple: I don't!
That's a terrible answer, sorry.
But the with is just whatever's left of the fabric. But I've placed the panels next to each other so that I have more narrow panels to the front. I put the front panels on the smaller piece, then back panels on the larger piece of fabric. This skirt is a pieced 3/4' circle skirt.
For some reason people like this video, but no one understands it, so yeah updated version in progress.
@@NoMoreSilkTwist the video is full of a lot of information! And it's pretty clear throughout. But it turns out being crafty contains *lots* lot little things and that adds up to a ton of info. 😂
Thank you so much for your reply. 💜
now does this pattern require that the fabric be wool? i live in texas, and even the winters have warm days here.
In the updated tutorial I use linen. The type of fabric doesn't really matter, but you need to surge or fell the seam allowances. With felted wool you don't have to worry about that.
It is beautiful!
*saves video so I have it for when I finally have the materials to make it*
Can this be washed? I have an oversized Marino wool pashmina I want to use but worried it won’t be washable.
You will have to test it first. If you have a scrap you run it through the washing process and see how it turnes out.
Hi! What kind of fabric did you use to make the skirt?
It's a felted wool.
A clapper will help you get those seams flat.
Once I've got the parts I don't know how to link them
In two weeks time I'll have an actual tutorial up, this video is not fit for that...
I really dont understand how you do this pattern....
How did you decide on the width of the hem?
For the roll up hem I chose the smallest number I thought I could get away with. The width of the bottom of the skirt is determined by the fabric. I made a new tutorial for this skirt which is easier to understand, so I recommend that you follow that instead :)
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Where do you buy your blouses?
The one I wear in the 'finished look' I've made a tutorial on :)
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Sorry (I believe it's my bad English... I'm brazilian...😅) When I add the parts of the template i get the value of 75cm and I missed the part when you frowned!
Please help me! 😅
PS: Congratulations, the skirt looks beautiful
The template is based on my measurements, my waist is 75cm you need to add your own values. Try to divide your waist measurement by 8. Side panels are 1/8 of your waist. Front and back are 2/8. If you want more fabric in the back like I did make the back panel 4/8.
Hope this isn't even more confusing! The video is not a good tutorial 😅
@@NoMoreSilkTwist I was watching this (and your other video) and I was trying to work out where the extra material to pleat at the back comes from if I was just dividing my waist measurement by 8.
But this comment makes sense now! So if my measurement was 80cm (so it's easy to work out!), I would have Front panel: 20; Front side 10, Back side 10, Back Panel 40, Back side 10, Front Side 10 ? (total of 100cm, .so 20cm of pleating)
That's a lot of numbers, but it sounds correct 😅
@@NoMoreSilkTwist It worked beautifully! Thank you so much for the video and confirming how the measurements for the panels worked! :)
@@kiiabby you answered my question -thank you!
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Please, you don't need music. Otherwise, nice skirt.
Being enchanted by the lady's blouse-skirt prettiness