The Sunbeam Skirt Tutorial

Hello, again.

Today I'm sharing with you how I made the sunbeam skirt.  

I mentioned two days ago how I had just learned how to sew with knit and I think it's really fun.  So when designing this skirt I decided to go with my new love of knit fabrics.

MATERIALS:

1. 1/2 yard of knit fabric

2. 1/4 yard of 4 coordinating yellow fabrics

3. Elastic Thread

4. Hair clip

STEP ONE:After washing all your fabrics lay out and prepare to cut. 

 I followed the pattern of a skirt my girl already had.

Fold up the material twice so you can cut once and have two equal pieces.

  

Don't I have a nice helper?  Your skirt should look like this when you're done.

STEP TWO: Now we need to cut out the material for the waistband.

I measured out 10" x 4".

With right sides together pin the waistband and the skirt.

STEP THREE: Zig-zag stitch waistband together. 

Iron down the seam.

Fold waistband in half.

STEP FOUR: With right sides together straight stitch skirt down both sides.

Iron down seams.

STEP FIVE: Turn skirt inside out.

Place waistband (right side) down inside skirt.

Pin in place.

STEP SIX: Wind elastic thread around bobbin.

Sew to attach waistband to skirt using a straight stitch.

Now the skirt is done.  I opted not to hem the bottom, since it won't be seen and won't fray.

STEP SEVEN: Making the bias layers to wrap around the bottom of the skirt.

Katy from No Big Dill explains how to do this in her tutorial.

I cut 2" strips out of my four different fabrics.

STEP EIGHT: Then I lined all my strips up and sewed them together.

After that I folded my huge long strip (everything now sewn together) in half and ironed it all down.

STEP NINE: Now I attached this long strip to the skirt by sewing it down-- around and around I went.  It made for four layers.

STEP TEN: I had some sheer material that I made into ruffles for the top layer.

I switched the machine to a wide zig-zag and a long stitch and I pushed the sheer materials through and made it all gathered up.

STEP ELEVEN: Sew ruffles on.

How to make the Sun.

STEP TWELVE: To make my big sun, I took one strip of each material, folded it in half and ironed it.  

Then I sewed down the tips into neat points.

STEP THIRTEEN: Almost done.  

I sewed the strips together at the top, then braided the strips together.

Then I took the braid and just worked it into a circle until it made a neat sun shape.

Then I pinned and sewed it to the skirt.

Lastly:

Repeat steps 12 and 13 to make the sun.

With the extra ruffles, I sewed those onto my sun.

Then I hand sewed the back of the sun onto a hair clip.

While I was hanging up this outfit I clipped the hair clip onto the sweater and decided it would also make a really cute broach.

What do you think?