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Full Flared Knee Length Skirt

Pattern #5273

This Minerva sewing pattern introduces a graceful full flared knee-length skirt, featuring a straight waistband and a practical center back zipper closure. Its elegant drape makes it suitable for smart casual outings, office settings, or semi-formal gatherings. Make this intermediate garment in lightweight fabrics with good drape, such as crepe de chine, to your own measurements.

Tech. Description

Full Flared Knee Length Skirt

Introducing a graceful women's sewing pattern for a full flared knee-length skirt, featuring a straight waistband and a practical center back zipper closure.

When To Wear

This versatile skirt is perfect for a range of occasions, offering effortless elegance for:

  • Smart Casual Outings: Ideal for brunches, daytime events, or stylish everyday wear when paired with a chic top.
  • Office & Professional Settings: Provides a polished and comfortable option for the workplace.
  • Semi-Formal Gatherings: Easily dressed up with elegant accessories for evening events or celebrations.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: A full flared silhouette that drapes gracefully from the waist to the knee.

Waist: A straight, topstitched waistband provides a clean finish and comfortable fit at the natural waist.

Length: Designed to fall elegantly at or just above the knee.

Closure: A 20 cm zipper in the center back seam, topped with a button and buttonhole on the waistband.

Hem: A turned-up, topstitched hem, marked after the skirt has been left to hang on a hanger.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. Requires accurate seam construction, zipper insertion, and waistband finishing.

Fabric Recommendations

Select lightweight fabrics with good drape to achieve the full, flowing silhouette:

  • Lightweight fabrics made from natural or blended fibers
  • Crepe de chine

Additional Supplies

  • Fusible interfacing
  • 1 button
  • Zipper, 20 cm

Cutter's Must

  • From main fabric:
  • Skirt – 3 pieces (1 piece cut on fold for the front, 2 pieces for the back)
  • Waistband – 1 piece
  • From fusible interfacing: Waistband.

Sewing Instructions

Finishing instructions: Before hemming the skirt, let it hang on a hanger and re-mark the hemline.

  1. Stitch the center back seam and the side seams, leaving a 20 cm opening for the zipper at the top of the center back seam. Press the seam allowances open; press the seam allowances along the opening to the wrong side.
  2. Baste the zipper in from the inside so that the edges of the opening meet over the zipper teeth when it is closed. Stitch the zipper 0.5 cm from the edges, starting at the left edge of the opening. Use a zipper foot for this.
  3. Stitch the Waistband to the upper edge of the skirt, right sides together, letting it extend beyond the right edge of the opening. Press the seam allowances toward the Waistband. Fold the Waistband in half lengthwise, right sides together, and stitch the ends. Turn the Waistband right side out, turn under the open edge and stitch it in the ditch of the attachment seam.
  4. Work a buttonhole on the left end of the Waistband. Sew a button on the right end.
  5. Press the hem allowance to the wrong side, turn under the raw edge and topstitch.

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