Mini Tiered Skirt with Button Front Yoke

Name: Mini Tiered Skirt with Button Front Yoke
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 2803
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #2803

A women's above-the-knee skirt with a shaped front yoke and a straight back yoke, two gathered tiers below, and a box pleat at centre front decorated with three buttons. It closes with a concealed zipper in the left side seam. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: skirt fabrics of natural or blended fibres.

Tech. Description

Mini Tiered Skirt with Button Front Yoke

When To Wear

In summer with a tucked-in T-shirt, blouse or tank top.
With a fine knit and tights in spring and early autumn.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Smooth over the hips at the yoke, widening through two gathered tiers.

Length: Mini, above the knee.

Waist: No waistband; the upper edge is finished with an interfaced facing, understitched 0.2 cm from the seam.

Front: Front yoke dipping to a point at centre front, with a stitched box pleat at the centre and three buttons sewn onto it.

Back: Straight back yoke.

Skirt: The middle tier is gathered onto the yokes, and the lower tier is gathered onto the middle tier; middle and lower tiers are cut on the fold.

Closure: Concealed zipper in the left side seam.

Finishing: Tier seams serged and pressed upwards; hem turned 2 cm and topstitched.

Level Of Difficulty

Beginner. Gathering, a stitched box pleat, a concealed zipper and a faced waist edge; no buttonholes.

Fabric Recommendations

Skirt fabrics of natural or blended fibres.

Additional Supplies

Fusible interfacing (front and back facings)
Concealed zipper
3 buttons

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

From main fabric:
- Front yoke – 1 piece
- Back yoke – 1 piece
- Front middle – 1 piece with fold
- Back middle – 1 piece with fold
- Lower skirt – 2 pieces with fold
- Back facing – 1 piece
- Front facing – 1 piece
From fusible interfacing:
- Back facing – 1 piece
- Front facing – 1 piece

Sewing Instructions

Reinforce facings with fusible interfacing.
Fold and stitch the box pleat on the front yoke. Press the pleat.
Along the upper edge of the front middle, stitch with loosened upper thread and gather. Stitch the yoke and the middle. Overlock the seam allowance and press it upwards. Along the upper edge of the lower skirt, stitch with loosened upper thread and gather. Attach the lower to the front. Overlock the seam allowance and press it upwards.
Along the upper edge of the back middle, stitch with loosened upper thread and gather. Stitch the back yoke and the middle. Overlock the seam allowance and press it upwards. Along the upper edge of the lower skirt, stitch with loosened upper thread and gather. Attach the lower to the back. Overlock the seam allowance and press it upwards.
Overlock the left side seams separately. Stitch the seam from the zipper mark to the bottom. Press seam allowances open. Insert the concealed zipper.
Stitch and overlock the right side seam, press seam allowances towards the back.
Stitch the right side seam of the facings, press seam allowances open. Overlock the lower edge. Place the facing on the skirt right sides together and stitch the upper edge. Topstitch the seam allowances to the facing 0.2 cm from the stitching line. Fold the facing to the wrong side, press. Secure the facing to the zipper tape and the right side seam.
Overlock the lower edge of the skirt, press to the wrong side and topstitch.
Sew buttons onto the front yoke.