Flounced Handkerchief Hem Skirt

Name: Flounced Handkerchief Hem Skirt
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 5416
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #5416

A women's skirt with a fitted upper part shaped by darts and a deep flounce sewn to its lower edge, cut in four panels that fall into points of different lengths. Faced waist, zipper at the centre back, for thin viscose or silk. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: thin viscose or silk fabrics.

Tech. Description

Flounced Handkerchief Hem Skirt

When To Wear

In summer with fitted tops, camisoles and light blouses.
For parties and holidays, with sandals or heeled shoes.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Fitted over the hips to the upper thigh, then loose and fluid through the flounce.

Length: Uneven: the points of the flounce reach below the knee, longest at the sides.

Skirt: Front in one piece, back in two halves with a centre back seam; darts at front and back pressed towards the centre.

Waist: No waistband; interfaced front and back facings, understitched 0.2 cm from the seam, side edges hand-stitched at the zipper.

Closure: Zipper in the centre back seam.

Back: The centre back seam runs through both the skirt and the flounce.

Finishing: The flounce seam is overlocked and pressed towards the skirt; the flounce hem is overlocked while stretching the edge, so it ripples.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. Darts, a zipper and facing in a slippery fabric, attaching a long flounce evenly, and a stretched overlock hem.

Fabric Recommendations

Thin viscose or silk fabrics.

Additional Supplies

Fusible interfacing (front and back facings)
Zipper

Cutter's Must

From main fabric:

Back Skirt – 2 pieces
Front Skirt – 1 piece
Front Skirt Facing – 1 piece
Back Skirt Facing – 2 pieces
Flounce – 4 pieces
From fusible interfacing: Front Skirt Facing, Back Skirt Facing.

Sewing Instructions

Fuse interfacing to the Front Skirt Facing and the Back Skirt Facings.
Mark and stitch the darts on the Front Skirt and the Back Skirt. Press the back darts towards the centre back and the front darts towards the centre front.
Overlock the side edges of the Front Skirt and the Back Skirt. Stitch the side seams of the skirt and press them open.
Stitch the side seams of the facings and press them open. Overlock the outer edge of the facings.
Stitch the Flounce pieces together along their side edges, leaving the centre back edges free. Overlock and press the seams.
Stitch the flounce to the lower edge of the skirt. Overlock the seam and press it towards the skirt.
Overlock the centre back edges of the skirt and the flounce. Stitch the centre back seam of the skirt and the flounce, leaving an opening for the zipper.
Insert the zipper. Stitch the facings to the upper edge of the Front Skirt and Back Skirt. Press the seam allowances onto the facing and understitch 0.2 cm from the seam. Turn under the side edges of the facing at the zipper and hand-stitch them.
Overlock the lower edge of the flounce, stretching it as you sew.