Pattern Description: A-line skirt with slant pockets and contoured waistband. It comes in two lengths, skirt A: 45 cm and skirt B: 52 cm.
Pattern Sizing: Burda sizes 34-44, I cut a 44.
Did it look like the photo/drawing on the pattern envelope once you were done sewing with it? Yes, only mine is longer.
Were the instructions easy to follow? I didn't use them, as the skirt is pretty simple to make.
What did you particularly like or dislike about the pattern? I like the A-line shape, I think it suits well my pear-shape figure, and also that it has a contoured waistband.
Fabric Used: A medium weight suiting that has an embroidered border.
Pattern alterations or any design changes you made:.
* Judging after the pockets finishing, I made view A which is the (very) short version, so I added about 13 cm in length, as I am tall and the skirt would have looked ridiculously short on me;
* I lined my skirt;
* Based upon another A-line skirt that I made recently, I removed about 1 cm at each side seam at the hip area without taking into consideration all the particularities of this project. Namely, that it has pockets that need to be accomodated too, and that because of the border, I had to cut the fabric in such a way that I have the straight grain accross my hips, so it doesn't have that nice stretch that cross grain usually gives. The skirt fits well when I stand, but when I sit I feel that I could use some extra ease. Live and (hopefully) learn...
Would you sew it again? Would you recommend it to others? Yes, I will sew it again and I recommend it to others.
Conclusion: This skirt is a great basic!
I've had this fabric in my stash for a while, and I wanted to make a skirt from it, but that border gave me a lot of headache because I knew that straight and A-line skirt patterns are a little curved at the hemline, and I didn't know how to reconcile that with my border. Well, in the end I just cut the hemline straight, and by looking at my skirt I think there is no noticeable difference from a correct, curved hemline, as the border looks good and even.
Back - I tried to cut the flower motifs so that the back center line doesn't break the flower pattern continuity ;)
Close up of the embroidered border, it is done in a sort of small cross stitches.
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Lovely work! What a perfect way to showcase this fabric. The match on the back is beautifully done.
2/18/13 8:56 AM
Perfect fit and great way to use the border fabric.
2/18/13 9:56 AM
I think it looks lovely. I very much like the fabric. Very good advice about the grain of the skirt. I have never tried such a thing, now I am sure I won't. I guess you must just spend most of your time standing while wearing it, because wear it you must, it is so very lovely.
2/18/13 6:11 PM
The top of the skirt is gracefully designed, a little below the natural waist (it looks like) and neatly incorporated pockets. Very nice work on bringing the pattern to life.
2/18/13 7:43 PM
You did well matching your borderprint. What I do now to succeed matching is to pin the fabric together, checking that the pattern is aligned from the right side. Then hand baste the seam, again check that the pattern is aligned. Then machine stitch the seam, begin sewing from the edge closest to the borderprint (the hem in your case). This way, the match will be perfect. Since this skirt has a slight curve at the hem, the correct way to adapt to a borderprint was to cut the fabric straight, following the border as you did--visually, the eye will read a "straight"hem because it will see that the border pattern is straight. For patterns having more of a curve at the hem/seam it is trickier to use a borderprint. One solution is to use your fabric above the borderprint, cut the fabric shorter, with the curved seam, then cut the border print straight across and use it as a "band" sewn back onto the fabric. Yes, a bit of a bummer....Or, ignore the grain, here is a post which gives some ideas: kaythesewinglawyer.blogspot.fr/2010/07/what-to-do-with-border-print.html. Your skirt looks great, enjoy wearing it!
3/3/13 3:17 AM