Skirt with Wide Yoke and Inverted Pleats

Name: Skirt with Wide Yoke and Inverted Pleats
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 2206
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #2206

A women's knee-length skirt with a wide hip yoke and pleats all around the front and back panels, stitched down 7 cm from the yoke seam. An invisible zip closes the left side seam. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: dress fabrics from natural or blended fibres.

Tech. Description

Skirt with Wide Yoke and Inverted Pleats

A women's knee-length skirt with a wide hip yoke and pleats all around the front and back panels, stitched down 7 cm from the yoke seam. An invisible zip closes the left side seam.

When To Wear

To the office or for daytime wear, with a blouse or a fine knit tucked in.
Autumn and spring, with tights and ankle boots or loafers.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Smooth and close to the body through the yoke, opening into pleated fullness below.

Length: Knee length.

Waist: No waistband: the wide front and back yokes are interfaced and faced with inner yokes, understitched 0.2 cm from the edge seam and stitched in the ditch of the yoke seam.

Skirt: Front and back panels, each cut on the fold, with inverted pleats stitched down for 7 cm from the top edge and released below.

Closure: Invisible zip in the left side seam, the inner yoke edges sewn to the zip tape.

Finishing: Yoke seam pressed upwards and overlocked; hem overlocked, turned up 1.2 cm and topstitched.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. Marking and stitching evenly spaced pleats, a faced yoke without a waistband and an invisible zip.

Fabric Recommendations

Dress fabrics from natural or blended fibres.

Additional Supplies

Fusible interfacing (outer yokes)
Invisible zip

Cutter's Must

From main fabric:
- Skirt – 2 pieces on fold
- Yoke – 4 pieces
From fusible interfacing:
- Yoke – 2 pieces

Sewing Instructions

When stitching pieces, pay attention to the notches - they must match!

Fuse interfacing to two of the yoke pieces (outer yokes).
On the skirt pieces, form the inverted pleats. Stitch the pleats for 7 cm from the top edge.
Stitch the skirt pieces to the outer yokes, press seam allowances upwards and overlock.
Overlock the left side edges separately. Stitch the left side seam from the zipper mark to the bottom, press seam allowances open, pressing the slit for the zipper. Insert the invisible zipper. Stitch the right side seam, press seam allowances towards the back and overlock.
Stitch the right side seam of the inner yokes, press seam allowances open. Overlock their bottom edge. Place the inner yokes and the skirt right sides together and stitch the top edge. Understitch the seam allowances to the inner yoke 0.2 cm from the seam. Fold the inner yokes to the wrong side and press. Topstitch the inner yoke into the seam of the outer yoke attachment. Sew the side edges of the inner yokes to the zipper tape.
Overlock the bottom edge of the skirt, press to the wrong side and topstitch.