Dresses 40 through 49 - Sensational Skirts

These skirts are made for the older girls and young women, who want to wear something more modest and age appropriate.   Here is a photo from a recent visit.

They seem to wear any kind of top with the skirts. I have some solid T-shirts to send with the ones I make.

Here is the easy pattern I used. This is a very basic skirt, made from a single pattern piece cut twice on the fold. Sew the side seams, make a casing for elastic at the waist, and hem.  That's it!  If you want, you can sew a pocket in the side seam, or add an outside pocket.  I used view E.

I was able to cut out 10 skirts in about an hour, since its its only two pieces.   I am going by waist size, from about 24 inches and up.










I made these assembly line style.  Here are the steps:

1.  I cut out the two pieces, varying the sizes.

2.  I made a ton of pockets 😀  Ten sets.  I used the same fabric so they would blend better as a whole.  A simple piece of trim completed them.

3.  Next, I applied the pockets to the front piece.  First, I folded the top down between 8-9 inches, depending on the length of the skirt.  Second, I place the top of the pocket on the fold line, approximately 2 1/2 inches from the side seam and sewed them on.


















4.  I sewed the sides up with French seams.

5.  Ironed and folded down the waist to make a casing for the elastic.  Insert 1/2 inch wide elastic.

6.  Ironed the hem and sewed.   All done!

Here are the skirts.  I show eight of the different prints, because I made two of the ten skirts from the pink fabric, and two from the blue fabric.

The two dark blue flowered ones are the smallest, with a 24-26 inch waist and length of 32 inches, and the green/yellow stripe and blue lily of the valley prints are adult sized, with a 32-34 inch waist and length of 34 inches.  I will probably make more of these as they are pretty easy.  If you are a beginning sewer, these skirts would be perfect for you to make.