A skirt-sun, like a little black dress by Coco Chanel, should be in every woman’s wardrobe.
Such a skirt is associated with tenderness and attractiveness. Her forms are airy and elegant. This textile adornment is able to give roundness to narrow female hips and hide excessive thinness.
The skirt can also hide the splendor of the figure if its length drops to the floor. Sewing a sun skirt with your own hands is simple. Today's workshop is dedicated to the different styles of this skirt.
Do-it-yourself simple skirt-sun on an elastic band
A skirt of such a style can be sewn without a pattern. It seems impossible, but only at first glance. The fabric is recommended to choose flowing and pleasant to the touch. And depending on the season, thick and warm or weightless and cool are chosen.
Materials and tools: fabric, elastic, scissors, tailor’s meter, chalk, pencil, rope, dressmaker pins, sewing machine, matching threads, needle, iron.
Stage 1
Hip circumference and desired product length are measured.
Stage 2
The fabric used must be washed and ironed beforehand. Then it doubles on the desktop.
The material is chipped with pins.
Stage 3
With the help of a tailor's chalk, pencil (or stick) with a rope, a semicircle is drawn on the fabric. According to the above figure, the length of the small circle is half the volume of the waist, and the length of the large circle is not measured. The length of the last circle depends on the length of the product, that is, the longer the product, the longer the circle. The length of the product is equal to the indent from the small circle.
A rope is set in the center of the small circle and fixed. A pencil with crayon is tied to its tip. When taut, the rope can describe circles. Manipulating this state draw the same small and large circles.
Be sure to make allowances for the elastic at the waist and on the side seams of 1 cm, and for the hem - 4 cm, taking into account the future hem.
Stage 4
Work with a belt. For him, a rectangular shape is cut out of the material, folded horizontally in half. A suitable width is 5 cm if the model is of medium height. Depending on the growth fluctuations in one direction or another, the width of the belt decreases or increases by 1 cm.
The length of the belt is the length of the waist circumference plus 5 cm.
Stage 5
The belt is stitched around the edges. One narrow edge remains temporarily unstitched to insert the elastic.
Stage 6
The skirt sews together the front and back on the sides. Then, you can sew the almost finished sun skirt, made by yourself, to the belt from the wrong side.
Stage 7
The elastic is inserted into the belt. The left hole is manually sewn with a blind seam on the front side.
The sun skirt is ready!
Skirt-sun DIY starlet
The skirt is sewn in an interesting technique of petal connection. The shape of the sun is preserved, but the technology is completely different. Mysteriousness and unusualness are given to the image. Craftswomen will appreciate this option skirts with 16 wedges.
Materials and tools: fabric of two colors, tailor's chalk, ruler, large protractor, scissors, sewing machine, matching threads, needle, tailor pins, iron.
Stage 1
The skirt consists of 16 wedges. Each of them has 10 strips in its composition, which consist of 5 strips of one color and 5 of another. All strips are sewn at an angle of inclination of 45 degrees.
Before starting work, fabrics are washed in a washing machine, dried and ironed. If this is not done, then the black fabric in the finished product can stain slightly snow-white fabric. This is important to prevent at the initial stage of work.
Stage 2
Based on the length of the product, a decision is made on the number of strips on the skirt. There may be more than in the figure. Take into account allowances of 0.5 - 1 cm.
Stage 3
Stripes are cut from the fabric at right angles (along the lobar threads) with allowances outlined with chalk.
Stage 4
All strips are stitched together at an angle of 45 degrees. Colors alternate.
On strips, it is recommended to apply strips with the degree of inclination marked by the protractor in advance.
Stage 5
Two half of the wedge are combined into one. It turns out the first wedge for a skirt-sun with your own hands.
Stage 6
By analogy, the remaining wedges are made. When folded, they resemble an asterisk.
Before general stitching into one product, the wedges are smoothed out with an iron.
Stage 7
All wedges are combined into one product.
Stage 8
At the bottom edge, the fabric bends and the hem is processed.
Stage 9
The folds of the wedges are clearly visible and show their shape. In order to give the sun skirt an even undulation, the lower skirt is sewn.
It is performed in a different technique. Two fabrics of the shape of a half sun are cut from the fabric and sewn along the sides. The bottom is processed. The lower skirt is sewn to the main skirt according to the pin arrangement in the figure.
Stage 10
A rectangular belt is cut from the material.
Stage 11
It folds in half horizontally. Ironing ironing is recommended. The belt is sewn to the main product on the front side. One narrow edge is left unstitched for future gum insertion.
For convenience, the belt can be pre-pinned to a sun skirt with your own hands.
Stage 12
An elastic band is inserted into the belt. The left hole is manually sewn with a blind seam.
Stage 13
The finished product is ironed.
DIY zipper skirt
This skirt is cut and sewn using any of the above techniques. The peculiarity of stitching lightning arises in the last stages.
Materials and tools: fabric, hidden zipper, scissors, ruler, matching threads, sewing machine, iron.
Stage 1
There is no gum in the description of the materials. It will not be required, since the work is with hidden lightning.
At the already familiar stages, a sun skirt of the desired length is sewn from fabric.
Stage 2
The belt is sewn to the skirt. First, with pins, he pins on the main product and on a sewing machine is sewn with a narrow seam “1 mm from the edge” on the front side.
Stage 3
By the length of the zipper, the zipper itself is inserted into the side section of the skirt. She pins with pins. The product is worn per person and the convenience of the lock position is checked in advance.
Stage 4
Then, on the fabric along the location of the zipper, a hem is made to the wrong side. With a special foot for sewing lightning, it is sewn.
The operability of the mechanism is checked.
Stage 5
A button is sewn onto the belt at the top of the zipper. She will not allow unexpected unzipping of the zipper during movement.
The zipper skirt is ready!
