SKIRT MAKING

Because I have not made clothes for a very long I did not want to do something which I know I will struggled with really hard, I dceided to just make a simple skirt which I knew how to do by watching videos by a textiler person on youtube. At first when I said I was going to make a skirt I was really worried an panicking wondering how I could do that. After watching the video about making simple skirts for beginner I begin comfident that I could do, all I need to do s practise it first.

The skirt tester how I did

1. I folded the piece of fabric evenly in half and pins them so that it could be stiff and not move when I am machining it. I marked with pencil and ruler with a straight line of where to sew in a perfect straight lin as I was new to this and I needed a line to guard me through
2. settled my fabric on the sewing maching and pressed my foot on the foot pad quite carefully and slowly. One because I wanted to take my time to do this, I did not want to rush through it
3. machined all the way down on the line in straight stitches
4. After insstead of using zig-zag to stop the fabric edges from fraying after you cut tiny pieces away to make the edges quite neat, I decided to use some of my decorative experimental stitches at the edge, to make the farbic decorative and stop the fraying
5. At the bottom of the skirt I folded it once really small and the second folding I did it quite medium. Reason for this is I want the edges to be crisp and neatly tidy I pined the fold to keep it in place and machined in straight stitches at the edge of the folds

folding the fabrics with stitches at the edge. I have used a matching colour of my fabric so that people can not see the stitches clearly but the design

1. I repeated the same technique for the top of the skirt but this time on the second fold, I made thhe fold quite big so that my thick easltic could fit through. Make sure when you are folding the top and the bottom you start from where your stitches you did earlier on the fabric. Because your folding will be even
2. Machined around it then stopped at the middle leaving a medium gap through so that the easltiic could go though.
3. Then using safety pins I clicked it at both sides off the small ealstiic I cut then I began to punch one end in gently

 when the elastic was pulled further to the other end it started to come out as seen in the picture

 Then I cut the ealstic edges. Overlapped them together and sew straight down on them then pulled the creases of my waist line over the easltic so that it could be hidden inside the skirt.

 This is the skirt done with me wearing it alone with the tops. I have decided to put a blue belt ober it because I want to stylist the whole outfit to show people that they can wear it like this also if they want to illstruate their waist and look quite causal but yet fashionable and elegant.