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Thursday, May 19, 2016

Sew a Simple Summer Skirt

Hi friends, it's been long time. Hope you are all doing well. I am here to share with you a simple half skirt tutorial. I made this at the end of last summer and reserved it until this summer to post. Yes, LOL. Its simplest skirt ever. After all a beginner like me could sew it. There are a lot of expert tutorials on how to sew the same, but I wanted to share with you what helped me as a beginner.

Sew a simple summer skirt. Half circle skirt for beginners. Sewing projects for beginners.


Grab your sewing machine, fabric, sewing essentials, 1 inch wide elastic and let's get started.
You just need 2 measurements to finish this skirt. 1. Height of the skirt you want. and 2. waist measurement where you want your elastic to fall. Once you measure these 2 head over to circle skirt app to calculate waist radius and fabric length required. The app handles all the math for you so you don't have to worry. Isn't it cool? The one I am showing here is for half circle skirt.


Sew a simple summer skirt. Half circle skirt for beginners. Sewing projects for beginners.

Lay your fabric flat.

Sew a simple summer skirt. Half circle skirt for beginners. Sewing projects for beginners.

Fold it in half.

Sew a simple summer skirt. Half circle skirt for beginners. Sewing projects for beginners.

Take a string and tie it to marking pencil. Cut the string at the length of your waist radius obtained from the app. (mine was 7")

Sew a simple summer skirt. Half circle skirt for beginners. Sewing projects for beginners.

Place the loose end of string at a corner (which has one folded side and one open side of fabric) use your pencil as shown above and draw an arc just like you would do with a geometric compass.
Draw another arc with our skirt length as length of the string, using the same fabric corner as fixed point.

Sew a simple summer skirt. Half circle skirt for beginners. Sewing projects for beginners.

Cut along the markings.

Sew a simple summer skirt. Half circle skirt for beginners. Sewing projects for beginners.

Now your fabric should look like this.

Sew a simple summer skirt. Half circle skirt for beginners. Sewing projects for beginners.

Open up the fabric and it should look just like half circle as shown above.

Sew a simple summer skirt. Half circle skirt for beginners. Sewing projects for beginners.

Double fold and iron the bottom seam.  


Sew a simple summer skirt. Half circle skirt for beginners. Sewing projects for beginners.

Stitch the bottom seam.

Sew a simple summer skirt. Half circle skirt for beginners. Sewing projects for beginners.

Pin the open side of the skirt and stitch.

Sew a simple summer skirt. Half circle skirt for beginners. Sewing projects for beginners.

Take 4 inch wide fabric as long as your waist plus half inch for seam allowance.

Sew a simple summer skirt. Half circle skirt for beginners. Sewing projects for beginners.

Sew close the fabric to form a band as shown above.


Sew a simple summer skirt. Half circle skirt for beginners. Sewing projects for beginners.

Fold the band in half and Iron.

Sew a simple summer skirt. Half circle skirt for beginners. Sewing projects for beginners.

Join the band with top end of the skirt, leaving a 2 inch gap to insert elastic. I used extra pins for the 2 inch gap so that I don't forget and sew along.

Sew a simple summer skirt. Half circle skirt for beginners. Sewing projects for beginners.

Insert the elastic using safety pin technique. Pull out the open ends of elastic.

Sew a simple summer skirt. Half circle skirt for beginners. Sewing projects for beginners.

Using zig-zag stitch join the 2 ends of elastic as shown.

Sew a simple summer skirt. Half circle skirt for beginners. Sewing projects for beginners.

Push the elastic inside waist band and sew close the 2 inch opening. If your fabric looks like it might fray a lot like mine did, use an extra zigzag stitch or serge along the raw edges.

Sew a simple summer skirt. Half circle skirt for beginners. Sewing projects for beginners.

That is it! Your skirt is ready. Now rock your summer with pretty skirts and cool tank tops. Happy Summer! Thank you for stopping by. As always I love to hear your comments.