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Gypsie-Skirt

Project overview

Name Gypsie-Skirt
Status finished
Happiness
Started Sep 5, 2018
Completed Aug 30, 2018
Progress 80 %
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Notes When I held my finished A0 pattern in my hands, I thought of a roll of wallpaper! Seriously, is not Lekala able to design and create the pattern and its parts in such a way that a little paper can be saved ?! Not only plastic waste spoils the environment and has to be recycled - no, paper is also a valuable resource today! So you can please nice the parts that are cut anyway in the fabric fold are only for half piece or not? Then again, I prefer to download in A4 down and puzzle myself a matching A0-sheet - unfortunately only costs me time and effort again! Sorry Lekala!

Since you can wrinkle so long fabric of the skirt, unfortunately, by hand, I have specially ordered me a crimping presser foot, with the help of which I can curl the lower fabric layer and at the same time approach the smooth skirt track. The upper thread tension is set below 2 - it is advisable to subsequently fix the seams with normal thread tension and then clean them.

In addition, I would recommend for this skirt to fix the document part of the inner waistband on the visible seams on the skirt, so for example on the back darts. To counteract this problem, I cut back and seamed the seam allowances on the panel so that it also gives a nice break and therefore a clean seam.

Users Comments

  • Fairy Duff

    I can imagine this pattern uses heaps of paper. I like Naomi's idea of re-using already printed paper - and I save and stash photocopier errors for just that purpose.
    For others considering this pattern, I would like to share this paper-saving method.
    I use half-scale for pattern pieces that are big and quarter-scale for pieces that are huge but uncomplicated (such as the ruffles in this skirt, which are straight lines and right angles).
    I have found that to print in half scale I instruct my printer to give four pages to each piece of A4 paper,. checking that it is set at 100% scale and not fit-to-page. When printed, I check the 10cmx10cm square on the final page. Even though it is still labeled as 10x10 it actually measures against a ruler as 5cm x 5cm. Half-scale!!
    To get a quarter-scale printout, I request 16 pages for each A4 sheet. For this ruffled skirt I would choose quarter scale. (Using this method, you can save a significant amount of paper, as you get a 64 page pattern onto a four-page print out, an 80 page pattern onto five, etc)
    Cutting and taping the tiny printout into the pattern pieces is the same as you would do on a 100% printout. I find using a highlighter pen along the inside of the stitching line helps me assemble the paper accurately. I do this for each pattern piece before snipping any paper at all.
    For cutting the fabric, I use these quarter-scale paper pieces as a
    reference on the fabric and with tailors chalk and a bit of mental maths, I mark out the full scale directly to the fabric.
    Good luck, all!
    BYW I saw this very skirt on a mannequin in DJs about a month ago - middle ruffle 'shallower' than the deep finishing ruffle. This pattern is On Trend!

  • Naomi

    This pattern must take so much paper! I re-use old paper to print my patterns. You can still see the pattern, even if it also has a text document on the page. This saves so much waste!

    I also have an easy way to put the pattern together with no tape. Here's my video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCjHdx84th0