Button Front High Waisted Pencil Skirt

Name: Button Front High Waisted Pencil Skirt
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 4722
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #4722

A women's knee-length pencil skirt with a contrast waistband, a contrast button placket with six buttons running down from the waistband, and a centre front pleat backed by a contrast insert. Two single-welt pockets at the back. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: dense dress fabrics of natural or blended fibres, with a contrasting fabric for the placket, waistband, front insert and welts.

Tech. Description

Button-Front Pencil Skirt

When To Wear

For the office, with a blouse or a fitted knit top tucked in.
In spring and autumn with a short jacket; the contrast trim can repeat the colour of the top.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Pencil skirt narrowing towards the hem, shaped by darts at the front and back.

Length: Knee length, with a 3 cm topstitched hem.

Waist: High straight waistband in contrast fabric, cut in one piece and folded, interfaced.

Front: Left and right front panels joined by a centre seam down to the pleat. The pleat at the lower centre front opens onto a contrast insert and is secured at the top with a bar of topstitching. A contrast placket with an angled lower end is topstitched 0.1 cm from the edge over the front and the waistband; six buttons are sewn onto it.

Closure: Invisible zip in the centre back seam.

Pockets: Two single-welt pockets at the back with contrast welts.

Back: Centre back seam with a slit at the hem, topstitched 0.5 cm from the fold.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. Single-welt pockets, an invisible zip, a front pleat with a set-in insert, and a topstitched placket laid over the seam and the waistband.

Fabric Recommendations

Dense dress fabrics of natural or blended fibres, with a contrasting fabric for the placket, waistband, front insert and welts.

Additional Supplies

Contrast fabric
Fusible interfacing (placket, waistband, welts, pocket openings)
1 invisible zip
6 buttons

Cutter's Must

If the patterns have a double contour, seam allowances are included. If the contour is single, seam allowances are not included. Seam allowances: all seams 1 cm. Hem allowance for front, back panels and insert – 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 – 2 pieces
- Front right – 1 piece
- Front left – 1 piece
- Pocket facing – 2 pieces
From contrasting fabric:
- Placket – 1 piece
- Waistband – 1 piece
- Insert – 1 piece
- Welt – 2 pieces
From fusible interfacing:
- Placket – 1 piece
- Waistband – 1 piece
- Welt – 2 pieces

Sewing Instructions

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

Interface the pieces with fusible interfacing.
Stitch darts on back and front pieces, press depths towards the center.
Mark the location of the back pockets. Interface the pocket opening. Press the welt piece in half lengthwise, wrong sides together. Stitch the welt to the back along the lower pocket marking line. Stitch the pocket facing to the back along the upper pocket marking line. Stitch ends finish at the short marking lines. Check the correctness of stitching the welt and pocket facing from the wrong side (stitches should be parallel). Cut the pocket opening. At a distance of 1-1.5 cm from the end of the pocket, make diagonal cuts. Turn the welt and pocket facing through the resulting opening to the wrong side, adjust the ends of the welt so that the fold meets the stitching seam of the pocket facing. Secure the ends of the pocket from the wrong side with a double backstitch at the base of the corners. Topstitch the welt to the pocket facing in the stitching seam.
Overlock the center edges of the front separately. Overlock the vertical and upper edges of the insert. Stitch the insert to the front panels along the vertical edges. Stitch the center edge of the front from the upper edge to the pleat. Press allowances open, unfold and press the pleat. Lay a decorative-securing stitch along the base of the pleat.
Stitch side seams, press allowances towards the back and overlock.
Press the waistband piece in half lengthwise, right side out. Stitch the outer side of the waistband to the upper edge of the skirt, press allowances towards the waistband.
Press the placket allowances to the wrong side. Topstitch the placket to the front and waistband 0.1 cm from the edge.
Overlock the center edges of the back separately. Stitch the center seam from the zipper mark to the slit mark, press allowances open. Insert the invisible zipper. Along the slit, lay a decorative-securing stitch 0.5 cm from the fold.
Overlock the edge of the inner waistband. Topstitch the inner into the stitching seam of the outer waistband.
Overlock the lower edge of the skirt, press to the wrong side and topstitch.
Sew buttons onto the placket.