Ruched Pencil Skirt with Side Buttons

Name: Ruched Pencil Skirt with Side Buttons
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 2494
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #2494

A knee-length women's pencil skirt with an asymmetric front: the right front panel has five diagonal pleats, folded upwards, that run into an off-centre vertical placket with seven buttons. Straight waistband with a button, invisible zipper and darts at the back. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: soft suiting fabrics from natural or blended fibres.

Tech. Description

Ruched Pencil Skirt with Side Buttons

When To Wear

For the office, with blouses and fitted jackets.
For dinners and daytime events, with a tucked-in top so the pleated front stays visible.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Fitted pencil shape, narrowing slightly towards the hem.

Length: Knee length.

Waist: Straight interfaced waistband, fastened at the centre back with one button and buttonhole.

Front: Cut as two different panels. The right front panel carries diagonal pleats, folded upwards and caught into the placket seam. The left front skirt has a two-layer left placket stitched to it, lying under the right placket. The right placket is folded in half lengthwise and stitched between the two front panels; its buttons are sewn through both plackets, so they are decorative.

Closure: Invisible zipper in the centre back seam with a button on the waistband above it.

Back: Two panels with a centre back seam and one dart on each side.

Finishing: Side seams pressed towards the back and overlocked; hem allowance of 3 cm on the panels and plackets, overlocked, turned up and topstitched.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. Pleats folded and basted to match the placket seam, a layered placket joined between two front panels, an invisible zipper and a waistband with finished ends and a buttonhole.

Fabric Recommendations

Soft suiting fabrics from natural or blended fibres.

Additional Supplies

Fusible interfacing (waistband)
1 invisible zipper
8 buttons (7 on the placket, 1 on the waistband)

Cutter's Must

If the patterns have a double contour, seam allowances are included. If the contour is single, the patterns are without seam allowances. Seam allowances: all seams 1 cm. Hem allowance for the bottom edge of the front panels, back, and plackets – 3 cm. Attention! First, print out the paper patterns and lay them out on the fabric width (fabric width can be from 90cm to 150cm) to determine how much material you will need.

From main fabric:
- Back Skirt – 2 pieces
- Right Front Panel – 1 piece
- Left Front Skirt – 1 piece
- Right Placket – 1 piece
- Left Placket – 2 pieces
- Waistband – 2 pieces
From fusible interfacing:
- Waistband – 2 pieces

Sewing Instructions

When stitching pieces, pay attention to the notches - they must match! Attention! Markings on patterns are made on the right side!

Fuse interfacing to the waistband pieces.
Stitch the darts on the back skirt pieces, press them towards the center.
Serge the center back edges separately. Stitch the center seam from the zipper mark to the bottom, press seam allowances open. Insert the invisible zipper.
Place the two Left Placket pieces right sides together and stitch the inner seam from the mark to the bottom. Clip seam allowances at the mark, turn the placket right side out, straighten, press.
Attach the Left Placket to the Left Front Skirt, press the seam allowances towards the skirt and serge.
Fold and baste the pleats on the Right Front Panel, with the folds facing upwards. Press the Right Placket in half lengthwise, wrong sides together. Stitch the Right Front Panel, Right Placket and Left Front Skirt together, with the Right Placket in between. Press the seam allowances towards the Right Front Panel and serge.
Stitch the side seams, press seam allowances towards the back and serge.
Attach the outer side of the waistband to the upper edge of the skirt, press seam allowances towards the waistband. Finish the ends of the waistband, trim seam allowances at the corners and turn out. Fold under the inner edge of the waistband and topstitch it in the ditch of the waistband seam. Press the waistband when finished.
Serge the bottom edge of the skirt, press to the wrong side and topstitch.
Mark and make a buttonhole on the waistband, sew on a button. Sew buttons onto the Right Placket, stitching through to secure it to the Left Placket.