After reading some tutorials I came up with a simple recipe for bubble skirts:
- take jersey fabric and sew a waistband (about 3/4 of hip circumference, for me it’s about 75cm wide, and 20cm long, to get a 10cm wide waistband)
- take a rectangle of about 100x200cm, so you get a finished skirt with about 50cm length and a seam of 200cm
- sew to a tube at 100cm side edges
- start the skirt seam: fold one end of the tube to 120cm (a very generous measure of my lower hip)
- add pouf: take 3 layers of tulle (I just folded 1.5m of tulle to get 3 layers of 50cm length) and pin it to skirt
- fold skirt fabric tube in half
- fold remaining raw edge of tube to match the skirt seam (for me it’s 120cm again)
- pin waistband to skirt seam
- you have to stretch it to match skirt seam
- I rotated the two folded seams 90 degrees because I hoped this would give the skirt more volume
- sew skirt and waistband together using a straight stitch
- voilà
No. 1
No. 2 is a bit longer, but with narrower hem (140cm), and rotated 180 instead of 90 degrees, which resulted in a tulip shape
And something completely different: a recycled men’s long skirt cut down to match my body
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