Skirt with Decorative Tab Fastening

Name: Skirt with Decorative Tab Fastening
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 5181
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #5181

A women's A-line skirt without a waistband, in two layers: the main-fabric back wraps round the sides to the front, where its faced, topstitched edges frame the front panel and its cut-on tabs fasten with three buttons at the waist. The skirt opens with a zipper in the left side seam. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: light natural fabrics and blended fibre fabrics, such as linen.

Tech. Description

Skirt with Decorative Tab Fastening

When To Wear

In spring and summer, in linen, with blouses, shirts or fine knit tops.
For the office and daytime wear, with the button tab shown at the front waist.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: A-line, flaring from the hips to the hem.

Front: One panel cut on the fold, with darts; it lies under the curved, topstitched edges of the back layer, which stop short of the hem at each side.

Closure: Decorative cut-on tabs of the back layer meet at the front waist: buttonholes on the right tab, three buttons on the left. The working opening is a zipper in the left side seam.

Back: Main-fabric back cut on the fold, with two darts, faced along its side edges and tabs by side facings. Under it lies a back lining, joined to the front panel at the side seams.

Waist: No waistband; the upper edge is finished with front and back facings and topstitched.

Finishing: Topstitching along the upper edge of the front and back, the side edges of the back layer and around the tabs.

Lining: Back lining only, with darts, its hem finished separately.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. Two-layer construction with the back layer faced along curved edges and tabs, facings worked round a side zipper, buttonholes.

Fabric Recommendations

Light natural fabrics and blended fibre fabrics, such as linen.

Additional Supplies

Lining fabric
Fusible interfacing (front facing, back facing, side facings of the back skirt)
1 zipper
3 buttons

Cutter's Must

From main fabric:
Front Skirt – 1 piece on fold
Back Skirt – 1 piece on fold
Side Facing Of Back Skirt – 2 pieces
Front Facing – 1 piece on fold
Back Facing – 1 piece on fold
From lining fabric:
Back Skirt Lining – 1 piece on fold
From fusible interfacing: Back Facing, Front Facing, Side Facing Of Back Skirt.

Sewing Instructions

Fuse interfacing to the Back Facing, Front Facing and Side Facings Of Back Skirt (heat-activated interfacing is pressed onto the wrong side of the piece with a hot iron).
Stitch the darts on the Front Skirt, Back Skirt and Back Skirt Lining and press them towards the center.
Finish the lower edge of the Back Skirt Lining. Place the Front Skirt and the Back Skirt Lining right sides together, stitch the right side seam, and the left side seam up to the zipper mark.
Insert the zipper in the left side seam.
Finish the lower edge of the Front Skirt. Press the side seam allowances towards the front and secure them by hand.
Place the main-fabric Back Skirt and the Side Facings Of Back Skirt right sides together and stitch along the side edges, around the cut-on tabs and along the upper edge up to the side darts. Clip the upper edge of the Back Skirt near the darts and turn the facings to the inside.
Place the main-fabric Back Skirt, wrong side down, on the right side of the lining and baste the upper edges together, without catching the zipper seam allowances on the left side.
Stitch the right side seam of the Front Facing and Back Facing and pin the facing to the upper edge of the skirt. Near the closure, fold back the ends of the facings, stopping 5 mm from the closure on each side. Fold the seam allowances along the closure to the right side and pin over the facing. Stitch the top edge. Fold the facing and the closure seam allowance to the wrong side and secure by hand.
Finish the lower edge of the Back Skirt.
Topstitch along the upper edge of the front, along the side edges of the Back Skirt and around the tabs up to the darts, and along the upper edge of the back.
Work buttonholes on the right tab and sew the buttons on the left tab.