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Tracy from Mad Quilter shows how you can create an 8-gored skirt from a pattern you draft yourself.  She shows the one she made for her daughter, but there’s no reason why you can’t make an adult-sized one as well.  Go to the tutorial.

[photo from Mad Quilter]

[via One Pretty Thing]

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