Yoked Pleated A-Line Mini Skirt

Name: Yoked Pleated A-Line Mini Skirt
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 5347
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #5347

A women's denim mini skirt with a deep shaped yoke at front and back and a pleated lower skirt that flares to the hem. The top edge is finished with an interfaced facing, and the skirt closes with a zip at the centre back. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: denim.

Tech. Description

Yoked Pleated A-Line Mini Skirt

When To Wear

In spring and summer with a T-shirt, a tucked-in shirt or a fitted knit top.
In autumn with tights, ankle boots and a jacket.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Close-fitting yoke over the hips, flared lower skirt.

Length: Mini, above the knee.

Waist: No waistband; the upper edge of the yoke is faced, with the facing understitched 0.2 cm from the seam.

Front: One-piece front yoke with a curved lower edge that dips at the centre. Below it the skirt is laid in pleats, with an inverted pleat at the centre front over the centre front seam.

Back: Two-piece back yoke shaped with darts; pleats below the yoke as on the front.

Closure: Zip in the centre back seam through the yoke and the top of the skirt.

Finishing: Pleats pressed and stitched 0.5 cm from the top edge before the yoke is attached; yoke seam overlocked and pressed up onto the yoke; hem turned up 2 cm and topstitched.

Level Of Difficulty

Beginner. Few pieces; the work is in folding the pleats accurately by the notches, setting the zip and finishing the faced top edge.

Fabric Recommendations

Denim.

Additional Supplies

Fusible interfacing (front and back facings)
Zip

Cutter's Must

From main fabric:
1. Back Yoke – 2 pieces
2. Front Yoke – 1 piece
3. Back facing – 2 pieces
4. Front facing – 1 piece
5. Skirt – 2 pieces
From fusible interfacing: back facing, front facing.

Sewing Instructions

Fuse fusible interfacing to back FACINGs and front facing.
Mark and stitch darts on the back yoke. Press darts towards the center seam of the back yoke.
Overlock the side edges of the front and back yokes. Stitch and press open the side edges of the front and back yokes.
Overlock the center front edge of the skirt, stitch and press it open. Overlock the bottom edge of the skirt and press up the hem allowance. Create pleats according to the notches and press them, securing them at the top with a stitch, 0.5 cm from the top edge of the skirt. Attach the stitched front and back yokes to the skirt, overlock the seam and press it towards the yoke.
Stitch and press open the side edges of the front and back FACINGs. Overlock: the outer edge of the FACINGs and the center seam of the back facing.
Overlock the center edge of the back skirt. Press the zipper openings and insert the zipper. Fold under the center edge of the back facing and hand stitch.
Place the FACINGs on the front and back yokes right sides together and stitch the upper edge of the yokes. Topstitch the facing seam allowance onto the FACINGs 0.2 cm from the stitching line. Turn the FACINGs to the wrong side and press the upper finished edge of the yokes. Topstitch the hem allowance of the skirt.