Fitted Panel Skirt

Name: Fitted Panel Skirt
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 5268
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #5268

This Minerva sewing pattern for a fitted panel skirt is drafted to your own measurements, ensuring a sleek silhouette with elegant front panel seams and a structured waistband. It's a versatile addition to any wardrobe, suitable for professional settings, smart casual occasions, or adding everyday elegance. You can choose to have it drafted to a standard size instead.

Tech. Description

Fitted Panel Skirt

Introducing a sophisticated women's sewing pattern for a fitted panel skirt, featuring elegant front panel seams and a structured waistband for a sleek silhouette.

When To Wear

This skirt is a versatile addition to any wardrobe, perfect for:

Professional Settings: Ideal for office wear, business meetings, and corporate environments.
Smart Casual Occasions: Easily dressed up or down for lunches, dinners, or semi-formal gatherings.
Everyday Elegance: a comfortable yet polished choice for daily wear that requires a refined look.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: a classic pencil skirt silhouette, fitted through the hips and tapering gently to the knee.

Waist: a clean, defined waistband provides structure and a polished finish.

Front: Features stylish front panel seams that create a modern panelled effect and enhance the fitted shape.

Back: Includes shaping darts and a center back seam, contributing to the tailored fit.

Closure: Fastens with a discreet zipper and a single button at the center back waistband.

Length: Designed to fall gracefully around the knee, offering a professional and flattering length.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. Requires accurate seam construction, zipper insertion, waistband attachment, and buttonhole creation.

Fabric Recommendations

Choose fabrics with some body and drape that hold shape well for a refined finish:

Woolen fabrics, such as thin wool or suiting wool blends
Silk fabrics with appropriate body

Additional Supplies

1 zipper, 20cm long
1 button
Fusible interfacing for the waistband

Cutter's Must

From main fabric:
1. Center front skirt half - 1 piece on fold
2. Side front skirt half - 2 pieces
3. Back skirt half - 2 pieces
4. Waistband - 1 piece
From fusible interfacing: interface the waistband piece.

Sewing Instructions

Stitch the front princess seams. Press seam allowances towards the center front skirt half. On the right side, topstitch along the princess seams.
Stitch the darts of the back skirt half.
Stitch the center seam of the back skirt half, leaving an unstitched section at the top for the zipper.
Insert the zipper.
Stitch the side seams.
Fold the waistband right sides together with the upper edge of the skirt and attach, leaving the seam allowance for the fastener protruding at the right back edge of the waistband. Finish the ends of the waistband with a facing. Turn under the inner edges of the waistband and topstitch from the right side into the attachment seam. On the left end of the waistband, make a buttonhole; on the right, sew on a button.
Press the hem allowance to the wrong side, fold under, and topstitch.