Pins and Kneadles : High/Low Chiffon Skirt Tutorial

As you may know, high-low skirts are very popular right now, so I decided to make one (+tutorial)!

Materials ^

Step 1: Chiffon Fabric

What you will need:

1 yard polyester chiffon fabric

3/4 yard rayon lining

Scissors

Wide elastic

Thread

Pins/Needles (or machine)

Chalk

Step 1: Lining Fabric

Step 2: Fold it once

Step 1:

Take the rectangle of chiffon fabric and sew one side of it together. Do this with the lining fabric too.

Step 2:

Hem the top of both fabrics. This will attach to the elastic band. How To in next step.

Step 2: Fold it twice

Step 3: Chiffon

Step 2: How

Hem it by folding the fabric end in half once, and then folding that again, so that the end of the fabric is hidden.

Step 3:

Pin. You are hemming both fabrics. WARNING - Chiffon is extremely frustrating to hem, so this step may take some time.

Step 3: Lining

Step 4: Four points pinned

Step 4:

Now we are going to attach the chiffon to the lining. (If you fabrics are the same width, just go ahead and sew it evenly.)

The way you do this with even gathering is by doing it in sections.

Step 4: Eight points pinned

Step 4: Twelve points pinned

First four points all around the skirt,

then halfway between the points,

then a 1/4 of the way,

and so on until there is

no more spare fabric.

Step 5: I went a little pin crazy here...

Step 6: Close up view (ignore pins)

Step 5:

Hopefully you should have no loose fabric at this point, so now it's time for you to sew them together with a straight stitch.

Step 6:

Go through slowly removing the pins as you go.

You can see the two lining side by side.

Step 7: My settings for the stitch

Step 7: Now it's time to attach the skirt to the elastic waist band so we can sew it.

Step 8:

Make sure you have the waist band measured to your waist and sewn together with a zig-zag stitch.

Step 8:

Step 9:

Step 9:

Ok, now it's pin the elastic to the skirt. This is the same process as pinning the chiffon to the lining.

Four points pinned.

Step 9:

<-- 8 points pinned

9 points pinned -->

Step 9:

<-- 10 points pinned

1/4 of the skirt all pinned. -->

Proceed to do this to the other 3/4.

Step 10: Sewing it

Step 10: Close-up

Step 10:

Sew the elastic to the skirt with the zig-zag stitch I mentioned earlier. I used blue thread to add a bit of detail.

Step 11:

Yay! Cutting! Measure the length you want the highest part of the skirt to be and add an inch for seam allowance. Sorry I had no pics, but I did it by cutting up to the measurement and then cutting a from the bottom up to the point in an arch. In this step, I also cut the lining to a length I liked.

Step 12: ^

Pin and hem each layer of fabric, again this
may take some time, but you cannot skip this. If you do, the second you wash this, it will unravel like crazy.