DIY Satin Slip Skirt | Making a Pattern From Your Clothes

#DIY, #Slip Skirt, #Cloning Clothes

In this video I show you how I make a Satin Slip Skirt by cloning a Skirt that I currently have.
The steps are as follows:

1- Fold the skirt in half (the long way) side seams together and lay it out on my pattern paper.
2- Trace the entire skirt, then add the seam allowance (¼ inch) to the skirt outline. I added fold lines to my pattern paper, then labeled my pattern.
3- Cut out pattern paper.
4- Lay pattern on top of fabric (placing fold of fabric on fold lines). Make two cuts: skirt front and skirt back.
5- Place the skirt front and back together (right sides together).
6- Pin the side seams of the skirt.
7- Serge the side seams of the skirt.
8- Serge top and bottom of the skirt (approximately ¼ inch seam allowance).
9- With the right sides together of the skirt, turn down (to the wrong side of the skirt) the top edge of the skirt ¼ an inch.
10- Pin elastic (I used 2 inch elastic) around the skirt waist, by placing the elastic on the seam edge of the skirt waist.
11- Stitch the elastic to the skirt using a zig zag stitch. I used a stitch length and stitch width of 1.5.
Note: remember to close the ends of the elastic together using a zig zag stitch.
12- Stitch down the elastic to the side seams of the inside of the skirt to help keep the elastic down.
13- Press the band with an iron to help lay the waistband down.
14- Turn the skirt hem under ¼ inch and top stitch.