polka dot pintuck skirt tutuorial

7/27/2019 Polka Dot Pintuck Skirt Tutuorial

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4a. Iron or just sew depending on what you are more in the mood for. If you iron, match up the

pins or the fabric pen markings (This is why I feel pins are WAY more helpful) then Iron down a

crease. Keep the pins in to make it your guide to sewing the pintuck, unless you marked it thenthat will be your guide. OR 4b.

4b. Because I have a lack of a big ironing board I decided just to sew and bypass the whole ironthing till the end. So, This is where I matched up the pins between my fingers then added another

pin to keep it perfect. If you also marked, then you can take out the 2 pins and just keep the one

pin.
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5. Time for pintuck #2...and the rest! So, space the pintucks out however much you want. I

decided to make the pintucks and inch long and the space between an inch long as well. So, I

measured an inch from the first pintuck and marked it, then measured 2 more inches below that

(because my pinctucks are an inch long, then you have to double it). Then sew by using either 4a

or 4b. Then continue with as many pintucks as you want. I did 7 all together.

6. Now time to hem! Under your last pintuck, cut down the fabric short enough so it can't beseen. Mine was about a quarter inch. Here you can serge or finish it off by zig zag stitching the

edges like a serge. Make sure the thread matches. I didn't have matching thread so I ripped thefabric short so it would curl inwards. But that won't prevent the fraying.
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7a. How to add the elastic is super easy. The first way you can do it, shown below, involves

stretching the elastic as you sew. The more you stretch the more gathered it will be. I put it on a

very long straight stitch because it will give more room to stretch and the stitch will be tiny whenunstretched. If you want the fabric to be stretched equally around the elastic band, then mark the

elastic band in quarters as well as the skirt's un-gathered waist.7b. This isn't shown, but it is the method I used. If you are using lots of fabric or you want it verygathered and need it to fit in an elastic band, but the stretching isn't getting all the fabric gathered

then you will have to gather the fabric before hand with a basting stitch or ruffling or gathering

foot. When the waistband of the skirt is all gathered to exactly your waist size, add the elasticwithout any stretching at all, but make sure to zig zag stitch this time. when you have finished,

pull the waistband to hear lots of stitches popping, which is the basting stitch. Then at this point

the zig zag stitch will be holding it up.
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As I told you onmy post, I started with a 6XL mens shirt, this one to be exact:
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B- Next up is to disassemble the top, cut out the

sewing lines of the back and neck so you will end up

with something like the picture. remember that

normally the back of the shirt has a double layer (cut

them to rectangles because we will use those pieces

for the ruffles on the front of the dress)

C- Cut the front of the shirt like shown in the picture, I

made sure to measure my bust from under my arm to

the other side and use that measurement for the

width of this piece to fit me better.

D- Now open both sleeves and cut one like this picture

(that piece will be the back of the dress) and with the

other sleeve cut two stripes of 2inches width (those

will be the straps of the dress)
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E-to make the straps for the dress fold the 2inch

stripes in half and sew along the edge, to turn theminside out I always use a big safety pin.

1- secure the end of your strap with the safety pin.

2- turn the front to the inside of your strap.

3- pull trough the inside of your strap.

4- reach the other side and pull the safety pin out.

5- keep until all you turned the whole strap.

6- strap ready, just press to finish.

F- Out of the back piece I named waist stripes, cut 2

pieces of 3inches wide each and half the length of your

waist measurement + 3 inches, (in the second image)

to have an even pattern in the front I cut one of those

stripes in half and added to the end en begging of the

other one, the 3 pieces together must be the your

waist measurement.

Put pins to mark you bust measurement on the final

stripe, leaving an extra inch for comfort.

Make another piece just like this one out of ribbon,

shirt or anything you can use (if you have enough

leftover you can make it with the shirt in my case my

left overs were not enough)

G- Ruffle the bottom of your dress, by sewing with the

widest stich your machine has and then pulling on one

of the ends of the threat, center your waist stripe and

make sure the ruffles are the same width as the

measurement under your bust marked in the waist

stripe.
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H- Pin to secure the ruffles, remember right side of the

fabrics had to be facing each other.

Grab the other piece you made and place it on top of

the ruffles, with the wrong side facing out.

I Sew the sandwich made out of the 2 waist pieces

with the ruffles in between.

J- Turn the fabrics up and this is how it should look.

K- Ruffle the back pieces of the shirt and fold and sew

the edge to prevent fraying.

Cut 2 small pieces out of your shirt leftovers to cover

the edge under the arms of the front of your dress.
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L- Protect the edge of the underarm.

1-Sew the stripe to the back of your tops arm.

2- Fold and sew on top of the fold for a clean finish.

M- Repeat the same process for each side and it

should look like this picture.
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N- Attach the ruffles to the back of the front, with the

wrong side facing out.1- Secure the edge of the straps in between the ruffles

and the front. Sew them together.

2- Turn the ruffle to the front.

K- Sew the edge of the ruffle to prevent the to fall

back.

O- Add the back piece on both ends, if you want you

can add elastic to the edge. (the sleeves already have

the old so you just need to pass the elastic trough it

and secure it on both ends)


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P- Pin and center both pieces together, remember to

sew on the dress piece because we will fold the other

fabrics waist stripe to cover and make the inside

clean.

Q- Once everything is centered, sew it.

R- Now fold the other fabric, and pin to secure it.


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I added a simple yellow sash to my dress to spice it up See more pics of this dressHERE.Let me know if you make it I will love to see, Happy Sewing!

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