Button-Front Mini Skirt with Overlay

Name: Button-Front Mini Skirt with Overlay
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 5063
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #5063

A women's mini skirt, slightly flared, with a separate front fly piece laid over the front skirt: it is caught into one side seam, buttons at the waist and is topstitched with a twin needle along its free edges. Centre back zip and a faced waist with no waistband. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: medium-weight fabrics that hold a crisp edge and take twin-needle topstitching well: wool suiting, gabardine, cotton twill, denim, linen.

Tech. Description

Button-Front Mini Skirt with Overlay

When To Wear

With tights and a jumper or a fitted top in autumn and winter.
With a blouse or T-shirt and flat shoes in spring and summer.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Slightly flared from the hips, shaped with waist darts at the front and back.

Length: Mini, above the knee.

Front: One front skirt cut on the fold, covered by a front fly piece. The fly piece is basted to the front skirt along the right side edges and sewn into the side seam; its left and lower edges are pressed under, the lower corner is mitred, and the edges are topstitched with a twin needle. Its upper edge is held by a single row of stitching and is not caught into the facing seam.

Closure: Zip in the centre back seam; one button and buttonhole hold the fly piece at the waist.

Back: Two back pieces with a centre back seam and darts.

Waist: No waistband. The waist is finished with an interfaced facing, a front facing cut on the fold and two back facings; the seam is understitched and the facing is tacked to the darts and seam allowances, with its ends sewn to the zip tapes.

Level Of Difficulty

Beginner. Darts, a centre back zip, a waist facing, a mitred corner and one buttonhole. No lining.

Fabric Recommendations

Medium-weight fabrics that hold a crisp edge and take twin-needle topstitching well: wool suiting, gabardine, cotton twill, denim, linen.

Additional Supplies

Zip for the centre back seam
1 button
Fusible interfacing (front and back facings)
Twin needle for topstitching

Cutter's Must

From main fabric:
Front Skirt – 1 piece (on fold)
Back Skirt – 2 pieces
Front Facing – 1 piece (on fold)
Back Facing – 2 pieces
Front Fly Piece – 1 piece
From fusible interfacing:
Front Facing – 1 piece (on fold)
Back Facing – 2 pieces

Sewing Instructions

Stitch the darts and press them towards the center.
Stitch the center back seam, leaving it open at the top for the zipper. Insert the zipper.
Baste the upper edge allowance of the front fly piece to the wrong side. Press the allowances of the left and lower edges to the wrong side. Mitre the lower front corner. Topstitch the left and lower edges with a twin needle, and the upper edge with a single row of stitching.
Place the front fly piece, wrong side down, on the right side of the front skirt and baste them together along the right side edges; the upper and lower allowances of the front skirt extend beyond the edges of the front fly piece. Stitch the side seams.
Stitch the side seams of the facings. Place the facing on the skirt, right sides together, and stitch it to the upper edge without catching the front fly piece. Trim the seam allowances close to the stitching, press them towards the facing and understitch. Turn the facing to the wrong side and tack it to the darts and seam allowances. Turn under the facing ends and sew them to the zipper tapes.
Make a buttonhole in the front fly piece and sew a button to the front skirt to match.