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 insert 1 – 2 pieces
3. Upper insert 2 – 2 pieces
4. Center insert – 2 pieces
5. Diagonal insert – 2 pieces
6. Facing – 2 pieces
7. Right Front flounce – 1 piece
8. Left Front flounce – 1 piece
9. Left side – 1 piece
10. Back gore – 1 piece
11. Back flounce – 1 piece
From fusible interfacing: facing.

Sewing Instructions

Reinforce with fusible interfacing: facing.
Stitch the princess seams of the front: upper gore, upper insert 1, upper insert 2, center insert, diagonal insert. Overlock and press the seams. The assembly of the back is similar.
Attach the right front flounce of the front to the diagonal insert, overlock and press the attachment seam.
Attach the left front flounce to the left side, overlock and press the attachment seam.
Attach the back gore to the diagonal insert of the back, overlock and press the attachment seam.
Attach the back flounce to the back gore, overlock and press the attachment seam.
Overlock the side edges of the front and back skirt halves. Stitch and press open the side seams of the front and back skirt halves, leaving an opening in the left skirt seam for the zipper.
Insert the zipper. Stitch the right side edge of the front and back facings. Overlock the outer edge of the facings and the left side edges of the facings.
Overlock and press: the bottom edge of the right front flounce, the lower flounce, and the left front flounce. Topstitch the overlock edges onto the skirt. Overlock and press the center edge of the left front flounce and the left side. Topstitch the overlock allowance onto the skirt. Secure the right front and the left front along the upper edge.
Face the upper edge of the front and back skirt halves with the facing. Topstitch the facing allowance onto the facing at a distance of 0.2 cm from the facing seam.
Turn under the side edges of the facing and hand stitch.