tutorials for peasent skirts?

I desperatly want to make a few gypsy/boho/peasant/prairie/whatever you call them skirts for myself before spring, but i don't have a pattern or tutorial. Does anyone know how to make one or know where i can find some kind of online tutorial?

 

Just make a looong circle skirt out of patchyness or velvet circle skirts are easy and hang beautifully and floaty. you'll find a pattern for one easily online.

 

do you mean the kind that have all the tiers on them? If so, then there's a great tutorial here ----> http://www.ericas.com/projects/proj9801.htm

but really, all you have to do is

1. decide how many tiers you want (I prefer 4 or 5)
2. decide how long you want the skirt (I go 36 inches for a long-to the floor one) and then divide that by the number of tiers, so you know how high each needs to be.
3. cut out your tiers, leaving 1 1/2-2 inches on top and 1 1/2-2 inches on bottom (for seams, etc). This is the part that's a bit confusing for me, but as far as the length of each tier, this is my guess.
A. Measure around where you want the skirt to sit. This, plus
12 inches, will be how long your first tier is.
B. Add about 20-22 inches to the next tier, and every one after
that. So, if your first tier is say 36 inches, plus 12 is 48
inches. Then the tier after that would be 68 inches, the one
after that would be 88 inches, and so on. You can increase or
decrease the amount you add, but in my opinion, 22 makes
for a VERY full skirt, in fact, sometimes I add as little as 15-18
inches.
4. Gather each tier (except the top one) so that the top is the same length as the bottom of the one above it (so, the second tier would be gathered to 48 inches at the top, the third would be 68 at the top, etc). Do this by loosening the stitch width on your sewing machine, and sewing straight across the top, without backing over the stich. Leave long ends of string on either side. Pull the two ends, and it will gather up really nicley.
5. Sew or serge the tiers together in order, DO NOT sew up the side yet.
6. Cut another piece of cloth, about 4 inches tall, and the same length as the top of your skirt.
7. Fold in the exposed edges, and iron them down. Then fold it in half, and iron it.
8. Place this piece, so that both sides are on either side of the top tier, so that the smaller piece is sort of encasing the top of the top tier (does that make sense?).
9. Sew this piece down, making sure that the ends are open, so now you have a sort of tunnel.
10. Now you have 2 choices. The easiest, IMO, is to get a piece of elastic, about 2 inches smaller than your waist measurment (so if your waist/where you want the skirt to sit is 36 inches around, make the elastic about 34). Run the elastic through the tunnel, and sew it down, really well, on both sides, sew up the side, and voila, it's a skirt! You could also make a drawstring, and I'll give you instructions if you want them, but it dosn't gather as nice as elastic, and takes more I think, but I'm a lazy sewer, lol.

I don't know how much sewing you've done, so I wrote the instructions as if for someone who doesn't sew much, sorry if I repeated stuff you know already . You know how to double roll the cut edges, so that they don't fray, right? If not I can explain it, it's super easy. I hope this helps!

Also, fleassy is right about the circle skirts, and if you want I can give you insructions for those too, they're SO easy and SO cute!

Good luck, let us all know how it turns out! Oh, and if you need me to claify anything, PM me anytime

 

There's a similar tutorial on craftster.org. The site is down at the moment(arrrrg), but I'll post a link if it'll let me access it.

 

Here is the tutorial from Crafster . Enjoy.

 

I'd forgotten about that one! I'm so glad you posted it!!!

The one I was thinking of is here

Er, it's kind of long, but there's alot of discussion about different ways of going about and making the skirts. If anything, you may want to check out the last page(page 13), there's a couple of lovely "patchy-esque" skirts.

 

those are all great! I've seen that craftster tutorial before, but the writing on the image was a little too small for me to make out, but i think i can wing it.thanks everyone!