Tutorial: Girl’s pettiskirt with layers and layers of fluff

July 30, 2010 by Anne Weaver 3 Comments

Ashley from Make It and Love It shares a tutorial on her blog showing how to make this fabulous pettiskirt for girls. The layers and layers of ruffles and fluffles will be soooo much fun for little girls to twirl around. AND they make for adorable photos, too! These skirts look like they’d be difficult to sew, but using pre-cut rolls of nonfraying chiffon and gathering the fabric on your sewing machine makes it go quicker than you’d think. Go to the tutorial.

[photo from Make It and Love It]

[tags]sewing, tutorial, toddler, pettiskirt, petticoat, ruffle, full, twirl[/tags]

Next Pattern:

Comments

Frankie says
August 28, 2010 at 2:04 pm
How to I make this fluffy,ruffly petti skirt for an Adult?
Reply
- anneweaver says
  August 28, 2010 at 6:03 pm
  If you wanted to make an adult size, you could follow the same process but with larger measurements. –Anne
  Reply
Maktub says
January 8, 2011 at 9:57 pm
Careful if you’re not US based. I was thrilled the see the lady supplies the details of where to buy the fabric, but this store charges insane extra charges to ship internationally (an extra $19 per shipment). So although the fabric is real cheap, with postage it becomes not such a good option.
(note I contacted them too and they aren’t very friendly, and definitely not interested to lower their handling cost not even when I’d be interested in buying nhuge quantities.
Reply

Have you read?

Learn All About Sewing Velvet Fabric

I’m always tempted by the pretty velvets at the fabric store. So much texture! And the way the fibers catch the light! But sewing on velvet is trickier than you’d think. That nap that lends beautiful texture also likes to slip and crawl. That nap can also spell disaster if you cut a piece the wrong direction. That isn’t to say you shouldn’t use buy that velvet and sew it into something gorgeous, you just need to go into your velvet sewing project prepared. And Melissa at Melly Sews has a post that takes you step by step through sewing on velvet.

Velvet is such a luscious fabric, especially for winter sewing projects. Of course there are velvet Christmas sewing projects – stockings, tree skirts, santa hats – but velvet is beautiful for all winter. Think of all the gorgeous velvet dresses, evening bags, hair accessories, even pillows and other home décor that you see all winter long.

Melly Sews’ post gives you the tips and tricks you need to know in order for your velvet sewing project to end up a success. There are types of projects better suited for velvets, and kinds of projects to avoid. She describes the different types of velvet available. And she also tells the best way to lay out and cut your pattern pieces from velvet fabric. Her tutorial also covers marking, pressing, and of course sewing that beautiful fabric. There’s also a video included in case that’s your preferred method for learning.

Head over to Melly Sews to learn how to sew on velvet fabric.

And if you want to learn more about that lovely blue velvet dress shown, she has a post that tells more about it including 2 ways to style it depending on if you want to be more dressy or more casual.

[photo credit: Melly Sews]

Next Pattern:

Comments

Have you read?

Leave a Reply Cancel reply