Fat Quarter Skirt

A skirt for Flower using fat quarters which she chose herself. If you want to try this, here's a brief tutorial. Flower is seven and a half and the skirt hangs just below her knees. You will need three fat quarters and some elastic.

Cut off 2.5" from the selvage edge of all three fat quarters, and keep 2 of these pieces for the waistband.











Fold each piece into four, leaving about half an inch for seam allowance. Make a diagonal cut which is 1.5" away from the bottom left hand corner and same distance from the fold in the top right hand corner.

You should have five panels, three of them identical.
And two pieces that need to be sewn together with a 0.5" seam allowance and ironed flat.










These are all the panels laid out with the ones that need to be joined on the right. They're at the back of the finished skirt so they don't spoil the design.

Join all the panels together with a quarter inch seam allowance and topstitch as you go along.

If you use an overlocker/serger to sew the panels together they won't need topstitching.


Join the waistband pieces together to form a ring and keep wrong-side out. The skirt should be right-side out. Place into the ring. Pin it together if you need to and sew the waistband to the skirt using a quarter inch seam.

If the waistband is a little too wide, chop it off and re-sew.
If the skirt is a bit too wide put a couple of evenly spaced little pleats in. They won't show up as the skirt has an elasticated waistband.









Fold over and sew the waistband, leaving a small gap to thread the elastic through.














Measure the required length of elastic, pull through and knot the ends together, and then finish off sewing the waistband.












All that remains is to hem the bottom.


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