Curved Panel Skirt

Name: Curved Panel Skirt
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 5356
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #5356

A women's flared denim skirt below the knee, built from curved diagonal panels that sweep across the front and back and end in asymmetric flounces. The front has a wrap effect, and the waist is finished with a facing instead of a waistband. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: denim.

Tech. Description

Curved Panel Skirt

When To Wear

In spring, summer and early autumn with T-shirts, shirts and fitted knit tops.
With flat sandals or ankle boots for everyday wear.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Fitted at the waist and hips, flaring towards the hem through the flounces.

Length: Below the knee, with an uneven flounced hem.

Front: Pieced from an upper gore and four curved inserts joined by stepped diagonal seams. The right front laps over a separate left side panel, and the two are held together along the waist edge.

Skirt: A right front flounce on the diagonal insert, a separate left front flounce on the left side panel, and a back flounce on a back gore.

Back: Assembled from the same curved panels as the front, with a horizontal seam above the back flounce.

Closure: 20 cm zipper in the left side seam.

Waist: No waistband; interfaced facing, understitched 0.2 cm from the seam, its side edges hand-stitched over the zipper tape.

Finishing: Seams overlocked and pressed; the overlocked edges of the flounces and of the front overlap topstitched to the skirt.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. Many curved seams that must meet at the notches, flounces set into diagonal seams, a side zipper and a faced waist in denim.

Fabric Recommendations

Denim.

Additional Supplies

Fusible interfacing (facing)
1 zipper, 20 cm

Cutter's Must

From main fabric:

1. Upper Gore – 2 pieces
2. Upper Inset 1 – 2 pieces
3. Upper Inset 2 – 2 pieces
4. Center Inset – 2 pieces
5. Diagonal Inset – 2 pieces
6. Facing – 2 pieces
7. Right Front Flounce – 1 piece
8. Left Front Flounce – 1 piece
9. Left Side Piece – 1 piece
10. Back Gore – 1 piece
11. Back Flounce – 1 piece
From fusible interfacing: Facing.

Sewing Instructions

Fuse interfacing to the Facings.
Stitch the curved panel seams of the front: Upper Gore, Upper Inset 1, Upper Inset 2, Center Inset and Diagonal Inset. Overlock and press the seams. Assemble the back in the same way.
Stitch the Right Front Flounce to the Diagonal Inset of the front; overlock and press the seam.
Stitch the Left Front Flounce to the Left Side Piece; overlock and press the seam.
Stitch the Back Gore to the Diagonal Inset of the back; overlock and press the seam.
Stitch the Back Flounce to the Back Gore; overlock and press the seam.
Overlock the side edges of the front and back of the skirt. Stitch the side seams and press them open, leaving an opening in the left side seam for the zipper.
Insert the zipper. Stitch the right side seam of the front and back Facings. Overlock the outer edge of the Facings and their left side edges.
Overlock and press under the lower edges of the Right Front Flounce, the Back Flounce and the Left Front Flounce, and topstitch them. Overlock and press under the centre edges of the Left Front Flounce and the Left Side Piece and topstitch the allowance. Baste the right front and the left front together along the upper edge.
Stitch the Facings to the upper edge of the front and back of the skirt. Press the seam allowances onto the Facing and understitch 0.2 cm from the seam.
Turn under the side edges of the Facings at the zipper and hand-stitch them.