#skirt pattern

In this post, you’ll learn how to sew a quarter circle skirt . A quarter circle skirt is a versatile and flattering garment that can be worn for any occasion. It has a smooth and flared shape that hugs your waist and flows around your legs. Plus, it’s very easy to make, even if you’re a beginner at sewing. You don’t need any complicated patterns or techniques, just some basic math and sewing…

Saw it on Shannon Makes YT

Caption from Matsushima Shigeo‘s 1977 kitsuke book “きもの着付け読本“, taken by @ayaayaskimono, showing women kimono various susomonyō (patterned skirt areas+shapes):

市松取り - ichimatsu tori: checkered skirt area

裾取り - suso tori: ankle skirt area

鍵取り - kagi tori: "key shaped" (= L shaped) skirt area

一文字取り - hitomoji tori: mid knee skirt area

斜取り - hasu tori: slanted skirt area

稲妻取り - inazuma tori: "lightning bolt" skirt area

Pattern blocks or slopers are basic in the sewing room and it makes it really easy to create any pattern you can imagine.

The skirt one is very easy to make, you only need four measurements: your waist contour, your hip contour, the distance between your hip line snd your waistline, and the length you would like to work with.

When tracing it, it is easier if you do it in quarters in order to store it later. It is important to remember that our boy is not a square, so you have to lower the waistline one centimetre in the centre line, and raise it on the sides, so it is more flattering to the figure.

And lastly, we have to place the darts. For that, mark half way between the centre line and the side, and trace a line ten centimetres long.

With this done, and no need of a back one, we should be able to trace an cut any skirt we think of!

My new skirt pattern is up in my Etsy and on my ravelry!

Misses' Instant Summer Skirt, vintage 1956 McCall's pattern #3676.

Free crochet skirt patterns! :)