Tutorial: jersy circle skirt pattern

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Hi Mannequins!

In this post I wanted to show you how I make my circle skirt pattern. The thing about circle skirts is that they are cute, versatile and easy to make. Especially when you use a stretch material like jersy and use a elastic waist band. You can easily create your own circle skirt with this pattern.
First you need to decide where you want your circle skirt to be, high waisted or low waisted

I made this skirt pattern for a friend of mine and she wanted a high waist skirt. I measured her waist 28’’ (about 71 cm) and measured the length from the waist down. You need to stand straight for all measurements so ask someone to measure it for you! The length of her skirt is 13.7’’ (about 35 cm)

When you have the measurements needed for a full circle skirt.

To start off your pattern make an angle of 90 degrees
Now you need to know how much inch or cm you need to go in to make your waist line. Our waists are not a rectangular, so you need to create a curved line for your oval shaped waist. You can find those measurements on circleskirtpattern.com simply fill in your measured waist, and the length (+ seam allowance, add a quarter inch seam allowance to the length of the skirt) when you hit the calculate button a little picture will appear and show you how the measurements are. It also shows how much fabric you may need. 

The yellow measurement will be the one needed in the next step. 


You can also check this chart  http://dc626.4shared.com/download/nvcJvmofba/DSC02978.JPG?null
Look up the measured waist measurement (for me 28’’) and go al the way to the right to the full circle skirt column. It says  4 ½ inches. Almost the same as the circleskirtpattern.com website. Both are absolutely fine.


When you have those measurements you can draw in your curved waist line. I drew 5 blue arrows in this picture, every blue arrow is 4 ½ inches long. Draw in your waist line.
 
 

Yay we are almost done! I know it seems like a long process but it really isn’t! Ok let’s move to the next step.

The length of the skirt:
So for this step you only need to set out the length of the skirt from the drawn in waist line as shown here in the picture every blue arrow. The length my skirt is 13.7 inches so for me every blue arrow is 13.7 inches long.

 


The last step is here! 

The waistband:
So the waistband is the easiest part of this all, you need to cut a rectangular. Length of your waist for me 28’’ + a quarter of an inch for seam allowance (29 cm with seam allowance)  and the width of your elastic my elastic is 1,1  inches + on both sides a quarter of seam allowance (8 cm with seam allowance) 

Cut out the pattern pieces, annnnd your done! Hope you all could follow this step by step tutorial. If you have any question or concerns please feel free to command down below. In the next tutorial I’ll show you how I made a simple elastic band circle skirt with this pattern.