Curved Panel Flounce Skirt

Name: Curved Panel Flounce Skirt
Brand: Minerva Patterns
SKU: 5481
Price: 5.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Pattern #5481

A women's knee-length flared skirt made of four gores joined by curved seams that wrap diagonally around the body, with a shaped two-layer waist facing band and a zipper in the left side. Drafted to your own measurements. Recommended fabric: denim.

Tech. Description

Curved Panel Flounce Skirt

A women's knee-length flared skirt made of four gores joined by curved seams that wrap diagonally around the body, with a shaped two-layer waist facing band and a zipper in the left side.

When To Wear

Spring and summer, with T-shirts, shirts and sandals or trainers.
In autumn with knitwear, tights and boots.

Key Design Features

Silhouette: Fitted at the waist and hips, flaring towards the hem as the gores widen.

Length: Knee length.

Skirt: Four gores whose seams curve from the waist down and around the skirt to the hem, front and back.

Waist: No separate waistband: a shaped outer facing band is stitched to the top of the skirt and lined with an inner facing, both interfaced; the top edge is understitched 0.2 cm.

Closure: Zipper set into the seam of the left side gore.

Finishing: Seams serged; hem serged, turned up and topstitched.

Level Of Difficulty

Intermediate. Long curved seams that must be matched along the notches, a zipper in a curved gore seam and a two-layer faced waist.

Fabric Recommendations

Denim.

Additional Supplies

Fusible interfacing (waist facings)
Zipper

Cutter's Must

From main fabric:

Skirt Gore – 4 pieces
Facing – 4 pieces

From fusible interfacing: Facing.

Sewing Instructions

Fuse interfacing to the Facing pieces.
Serge the edges of the zipper opening in the left side gore. Stitch the Skirt Gores together, leaving the zipper opening unstitched. Serge the seam allowances and press.
Stitch the side seams of the Facings and press the seams open. Serge the outer (lower) edge of the inner facing.
Insert the zipper. Stitch the outer facing to the upper edge of the skirt. Stitch the inner facing to the outer facing along the upper edge. Understitch the seam allowance onto the facing 0.2 cm from the seam, stopping 3 cm from the ends. Turn under the side edges of the inner facing at the opening and stitch them to the zipper seam allowances. Stitch the serged lower edge of the inner facing in the ditch of the seam joining the outer facing to the skirt.
Serge the lower edge of the skirt, press the hem to the wrong side and topstitch.