Mermaid Skirt

Mermaid Skirt

An easy peasy ‘Mermaid Skirt’ that Serena sewed (under close supervision) as now she wants to be a fashion designer!!

I found this blue shiny material in the cupboard and it was just ‘perfect’ for this project.

The first step was to measure the length and width of the material so it can slip over her hips easily. Serena then neatly cut it out.

Now we measure and cut the ‘frilly’ edging.  We measured out twice the length skirt hem (we had to sew 2 pieces together to get the right length) and the width was about 15cm.

Now the fun part begins!! Serena overlocked the side seem of the pencil skirt.

Then we measured and sew the waistband. Making sure it was wide enough for the elastic to fit through.

We pinned a big safety pin onto the end of the elastic and threaded it into the waistband, then sew the ends together. We now have a pencil skirt!!

With this next step I measured where Serenas knees were and also the length she wanted the skirt at the back then laid the skirt flat with the seam centre front. We pinned (both bits of material together) to the shape that we wanted, higher at the front then scooped to long at the back not forgetting to take off 15cm for the frilly hem.

Serena carefully cut it out.

For the hemline on the frilly bit we just sewed a rolled hem with the overlocker. We then used a loose big stich on the top of the material on the normal sewing machine so we could pull one thread to gather it.

Now we placed a pin at quarter marks on both the skirt and hem piece before we gather the hem line material. Once gathered we matched quarter mark pins so the gather hem was evenly spaced out, then we pined and sewed it!!

DONE!!

She can also wear it with the higher part on the side

P.S. After she took the skirt off the elastic twisted around a bit in the waistband so I sewed another row of stitching in the centre to keep it in place.