Do you wanted to make a really cute basic skirt, but you wanted it to fit you perfectly? Then you should try pattern making. When I say pattern making, how does that make you feel? Terrified? Excited? Overwhelmed? Something that encompasses all three of those things? Me too! Well, I'm not necessarily terrified and yet I'm always surprised when I try on my skirt and it not only looks like a skirt but it does fit me. I have to say, it's a thrill and a reward when I can look at my end product and say not only did I succeed in creating it, but I made those pattern pieces as well.
Now I'm going to give you the taste of this thrill with our basic skirt pattern making tutorial. We also have a diagram to download for you to keep track of your measurements. It's located in the download section below the video. If you've always wanted to try pattern making, but were kind of nervous to do so, then this is the tutorial where you can jump in and get a feel for it. Get ready to utilize your math brain, because pattern making is basically nothing but math and measurements. I can't be the only one who finds it fun! In this tutorial, I used my measurements as an example, but please make sure you use your own measurements. And in pattern making, it is so essential that you do the correct measurements for it to be the correct size. So if you're careful in substituting my measurements for yours, then your pattern should come out perfectly.
If you created your pattern pieces and then wondering now what? Don't fret. We have a tutorial showing you how to sew the basic skirt so then you can wear it all over town and start you're own cute skirt fashion line in every color.
Hi- It’s the Saturday before I go back to work as a university lecturer, and I’m doing it- I’m doing the basic skirt project. This is going to a bit of challenge as, living in Sweden, I do metric. So there’s extra math involved, but that’s cool cos I’m a nerd. I would really love it if the seam allowances were available as notes somewhere, so I could do the conversions for them in a single batch, rather than pause, convert and write down one seam allowance, then forward, pause, convert and so on throughout the video. You don’t need to print out the full pattern design, as I’m sure someone would just post it to the world, but seam allowances in a notepad type doc would be really helpful. Just a suggestion! Diana
thank you for answering me, i really do appreciate it.
for an elasticized waist, check out our maxi skirt tutorial: The technique is pretty similar to the basic skirt but there are no darts. And I made my skirt out of knit and you can make this any length you want. We don’t have a tutorial for leggings yet. If you have an existing pair you like, you can use it to make a pattern, similar to what we doing in our patterns from existing clothes series. Just flip it inside out and lay it flat on paper so you can trace the shape. You would only do 1 leg, front leg and back leg. It’s not the same thing but you can see how I got the basic shape of a pair of jeans doing this: https://www.professorpincushion.com/professorpincushion/how-to-create-patterns-from-existing-clothing-jeans-part-1/
hi there professor,
I was wondering, with the patterns for the basic skirt and basic pants is it possible to make them as pull on with elastic waists, and made from knit fabrics?
Also how would i go about creating a basic leggings/jeggings pattern?
Thank you
sorry, I don’t really understand what you’re looking for. We have a tutorial on making your own flat collar, and one of the options is a peter pan collar. It’s one of our premium tutorials. https://www.professorpincushion.com/professorpincushion/flat-collar-pattern/ We only have 1 tutorials for a little girl’s dress here and that one is here: https://www.professorpincushion.com/professorpincushion/mccalls-pattern-6690/
Hi.. do you the girl dress pattern for the peter pan flat collar video that you have here?
Thanks.
Ana