The easiest garment you’ll ever make! Use my FREE step by step photo tutorial to make your own skirt in half an hour. You’ll want to make them for everyone!
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Hi Meredith this is a fantastic tutorial! I love that it’s 30 minutes to skirt heaven! I’ve vowed to sew myself some skirts this Spring and I think this one is one that I will try. The only thing I’m wondering is I would really like side pockets on my skirts. Do you see an easy way to modify this skirt to add pockets? I guess that would make it the 1 hour skirt. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
You could cut your outer fabric in half so that you are sewing one of the sides together (adding in some pockets using an existing pocket template) before you assemble the skirt according to my tutorial. :) rather than having a single back seam, you would be sewing up one of the side seams which is pretty much the same thing except that our could be stitching around the pocket on the outer layer. I think it would still make for a quick project!
Thank you! I will give that a try! I’ll use #30minuteskirt on my instagram once I get it done, but I have a few other projects to finish up before I start the skirt making :-)
Hi ~ I wanted to thank you for this tutorial. I hadn’t sewn in decades and was a bit timid about cutting into some lovely Liberty London Lawn (LLL). Your tutorial and your blog post with tips for sewing with LLL were immensely helpful! My skirt is quite polished and professional looking. Thanks so much! :-)
If you make a reversible skirt using coordinating fabrics, you could cut one piece longer than the other to make a band on the bottom, too.
You could certainly do that!
Thank you for this tutorial! Took me longer than I thought it would (I have 2 little distractions, and I’m not super adept at sewing), but the end result looks quite nice.
That makes me so happy!! One must always allow extra time for littles! I have four of them and everything takes me longer these days.