Panelled Mermaid Skirt with Lace-Up Back

Name: Panelled Mermaid Skirt with Lace-Up Back
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 5358
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #5358

A women's maxi skirt in denim, fitted through the hips and thighs and flaring below the knee, made of curved vertical panels with topstitched seams. It fastens at the centre back with a lace-up opening: a cord laced through eyelets over an underlap. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: denim.

Tech. Description

Panelled Mermaid Skirt with Lace-Up Back

When To Wear

With fitted tops, shirts or short jackets in spring and autumn.
For evenings out and summer events when a long denim skirt is wanted.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Mermaid: close-fitting over the hips and thighs, widening from the knee to the hem.

Length: Maxi, to the ankle.

Front: A centre front panel, two curved inserts and a side panel on each side, joined by princess seams that run from the waist to the hem.

Back: The same panel arrangement plus a centre back seam, stitched up to a notch; above it, a lace-up opening with a row of eyelets on each edge.

Closure: Lacing at the centre back over an interfaced underlap; the right back edge is faced.

Waist: No waistband; the top edge is finished with interfaced facings understitched 0.2 cm from the seam.

Finishing: All princess seams pressed open and topstitched 0.5 cm on each side; 2 cm hem, overlocked and topstitched.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. Long curved princess seams that have to match at the notches, even topstitching along every seam, a faced waist with an underlap, and setting eyelets.

Fabric Recommendations

Denim.

Additional Supplies

Fusible interfacing (front facing, fastener facings, underlap)
Eyelets
Cord for lacing

Cutter's Must

From main fabric:
1. Central back skirt half - 2 pieces
2. Insert 1 back skirt half – 2 pieces
3. Insert 2 back skirt half – 2 pieces
4. Skirt side – 4 pieces
5. Central front skirt half – 1 piece
6. Insert 1 front skirt half – 2 pieces
7. Insert 2 front skirt half -2 pieces
8. Front facing – 1 piece
9. Front facing – 1 piece
10. Fastener facing – 2 pieces
From fusible interfacing: fastener facing, front facing, front facing.

Sewing Instructions

Fuse fusible interfacing to the fastener facing, front facing, front facing and back facing.
Stitch the princess seams: skirt side, insert 2 front skirt half, insert 1 front skirt half, and central front skirt half. Overlock the seams, press them open, and topstitch at a distance of 0.5 cm from the stitching lines.
Stitch the princess seams: skirt side, insert 2 back skirt half, insert 1 back skirt half, and central back skirt half. Overlock the seams, press them open, and topstitch at a distance of 0.5 cm from the stitching lines.
Stitch the side edges of the front and back. Overlock the side seams and press them open.
Overlock the center seam of the back and stitch it up to the notch. Press the center seam of the back open.
Fold the front facing in half and stitch the upper and lower edges. Turn the front facing right side out and press.
Stitch and press open the side edges of the front facing and the fastener facing. Overlock the outer edge of the fastener facing and the front facing.
Place the facings on the upper edge of the skirt, right sides together, and stitch the upper edge of the skirt and the right center edge of the back. Topstitch the stitching line onto the facings at a distance of 0.2 cm from the stitching line. Trim and turn out the right corner. Fold the facings to the wrong side and press the upper stitched edge of the skirt.
Overlock the side edge of the front facing. Attach the front facing to the center edge of the back. Fold under the center edge of the fastener facing and topstitch it into the seam where the front facing was attached.
Overlock, fold under, and topstitch the hem allowance onto the skirt. Press the hem allowance.
Mark and punch eyelets.