D E S I G N
H A L F – S C A L E D R A P I N G
for outer right side layer of the skirt
gridding
S K I R T B A S E S I L O U H E T T E
A-Line Gathered Skirt
step 1: create basic a-line skirt
step 2: lengthen basic a-line skirt x2 on waistline and hemline
alined each piece of gathered skirt to original a-line skirt waist measurement
ready for fitting!
invisible zipper
skirt base is too long, so I made the correction:
L E F T S I D E L A Y E R
W A I S T B A N D
M U S L I N D O N E
(note: through the process, I have discovered that the design would look cleaner if the base silhouette skirt were not gathered; the base skirt for the final would be a basic a-line skirt.)
F I N A L S K I R T
ironing pleats/ blind stitch hem/waistband/bias hem/invisible zipper