Sun skirt: how to sew with your own hands and patterns

From a series of tutorials for beginners on how to sew a skirt and ready-made patterns for several skirt options based on my sewing and sewing books.

Processing the belt of a skirt is one of the first difficulties that a novice tailor faces.
In this article, we will consider the mistakes that beginners make when sewing skirts with a belt,
the nuances of how to sew a skirt to the belt,
as well as ready-made PDF patterns in which you can use this belt processing technology.

The drawing of this style should be done immediately on the fabric, the consumption of which, with a width of 1,5 m, will be two lengths of the skirt plus two radii for the notch, plus basing and processing:

2Du + 2R+5cm+2cm

notch radius at the waist is equal to one sixth of the full circumference of the waist (in the formula From):

In this article, let's deal with the half-sun skirt pattern. Consider sketch of this skirthow to cut and how to sew a half-sun skirt without a pattern. In two small videos in the article, beginners can see a pattern with their own hands and how to sew a dress with a half-sun skirt, and I will also present several ready-made patterns with a notch for such a skirt.

The floor-length semi-sun skirt is one of the most popular skirts of recent seasons. Keeping the silhouette of the "sun", it is more comfortable to wear and, of course, more economical in terms of fabric consumption.

It should be noted that the half-sun skirt is more appropriate for figures of medium and large fullness than Sun skirt or straight skirt. With the modern trend “to sew for the full what is for the thin”, this is important when choosing a style.

In a word, the half-sun skirt is the skirt that all fashionistas, home couturiers and professional fashion designers should pay attention to.

This video tutorial for beginners on the cutting technique was filmed at the numerous requests of visitors to the Couturier website.

Dresses with a skirt "sun" this season they are especially popular, but manufacturers and sellers of women's clothing refuse them because of the high consumption of fabric and, as a result, the high cost of the product.

Therefore, fashionistas have no choice but to sew these outfits themselves, using dress patterns for beginners, which you can download almost for free ...

Cutting and sewing lessons from Vera Olkhovskaya

In this video, a master class on cutting techniques for beginners, I show cutting dresses with a half-sun skirt.

Before you start watching, take a look video tutorial on the development of this style from idea to finished pattern

And do not forget that the features of the cut follow from the features of sewing ...

I'll start with what soft regilin is and "what it is eaten with."

He made his way into our wardrobes from the workshops of couturiers, sheathing dancers.

At first, soft regilin took its modest place in children's lockers,

decorating the bottom of festive dresses for little girls, and then moved to us ...

But back to our sewing video.

As you know, the "sun" skirt can be both part of the dress and a separate item.

You can work on the bottom in many different ways...

Sewing lessons from Vera Olkhovskaya

Starting to design a style for a particular product, you sometimes look through hundreds of photos and only one or two gets stuck in your mind.

I have always admired Nakamishchi Takomo's designs and one of his pieces literally stuck in my head so seriously that I decided to design a dress style based on this bodice...

In this video master class on sewing, the moment of connecting the bodice and skirt is considered using the example of the popular model “peasant lady”.

The bodice of this dress is designed on the basis of a boot cut, and the skirt is the usual "sun".

The principle of this sewing operation is applicable to other dresses cut off at the waist with "sun" and "semi-sun" skirts.

Next video is how to sew a dress about connecting a bodice with a skirt ...

Sewing dresses with a "sun" skirt or with any flared skirt raises the question of processing the bottom before the couturier.

It was traditionally believed that skirts "sun" and "flared", skirts with wedges and "godet", as well as "tatyanka", beloved by the people, are processed along the bottom with a seam in a hem with an open or closed cut.

For new methods and materials for processing the bottom of the sun skirt, watch the video master class from Vera Olkhovskaya ...

In the article I want to show an example of a creative approach to my ready-made PDF patterns based on a review and a beautiful summer dress sewn by Natalia Oshchepkova.

Natalia Oshchepkova:

She sewed more than one product. Patterns perfectly match the parameters of the figure. modern models, and a very convenient way to purchase them. Cutting in the atelier does not always work out that way.