Repeat this process with the back skirt fabric and back waistband fabric. Then cut off the excess skirt fabric that is hanging over on each side of your waistband.
So center your skirt front fabric nicely on your waistband front fabric and pin with right sides together. Now….your skirt front (and back) fabric will still be wider than your waistband even with the pleats. This basting stitch will hold your pleats in place without the pins…and yes, it’s worth doing.
I pin each pleat in 4 places and once I have pleated across the entire width of both the skirt front fabric and the skirt back fabric I sew a basting stitch about a quarter inch down from the top. But because pictures are more helpful than my words are you can see one of my pleats in the picture below from all three angles…from the front, the top, and in the back. And where each pleat is I folded the fabric back under itself one inch in one direction and one in the other direction. There are many, many, MANY ways to do pleats and I am only going to show you the way I made the pleats on this particular skirt. (Do this to both pieces of your waistband.) Open your folded waistband back up and iron your interfacing into the waistband along the wrong side of your fabric. (By in half, what I meant is vertically in half…so now each waistband piece is only 4 inches tall and still as wide as the number you calculated.) Once you have it folded then press it. Fold each waist band piece in half with wrong sides together. Now it’s time to start putting all of this together! And we have the interfacing that will fill the inside of the waistband. We also have a waistband front and a waistband back. Ok so now you are going to cut two skirt pieces that are as wide as your entire waist measurement (mine being 29.5 inches) and as long as your waist to length measurement minus those 3 inches (mine being 23 inches). (I was just being dramatic about doing more math…I’m like that…) So if I take 3 inches away from the 26 inches I am left with 23 inches.)Īlright math done. (Mine being 15.75.)Īlright our waistband pieces are officially ready to be put together so lets cut the skirt portion…but get ready….we have to do a little more math before we start the cutting.įirst, take your waist to length measurement and minus 3 inches. Sweet! Now that we have our two waistband pieces let’s cut the interfacing for them while we still have waistbands on our mind.Ĭut your interfacing 3.75 inches tall and then the width of that number you calculated earlier. Ok now that we’ve done our math for the day let’s cut those waist band pieces! Cut two pieces that are as wide as the number you just calculated (mine being the 15.75 inches) and then 8 inches tall. My waist is 29.5 inches so when I divide it in half I get 14.75 inches.
Take your waist measurement and divide it in half. Let’s start with the two pieces for the waistband: Your are going to cut 4 pieces of fabric and 2 pieces of Pellon. Using your flexible measuring tape measure from your waist down to where you would like your skirt to end. Using your flexible measuring tape measure the circumference of your waist.
*1/2 yard of Pellon (or other light weight interfacing) On Sunday I shared a wide waistband pleated skirt that I made for the #sewyourstyle campaign sponsored by Pellon and JoAnn….and I promised that today I would share the tutorial for how I made it…so let’s get to it!
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