Summer is the time of year when you want to look light and romantic. To achieve this look, flowy multi-tiered skirts are ideal. The curvy style looks equally good on slender girls and non-standard figures. And its waves and tints add smooth lines and emphasize femininity.

Today we will learn how to sew a ruffled skirt that is perfect for your summer look.

We took a Victoria's Secret skirt model, consisting of 3 tiers. The total length is 53.5 cm. We will need 1.4-2.75 m of fabric, depending on the width of the cut and thread. Measurements will need to be taken from the waist and hips.

To calculate side A (the width of the first tier), add 5 cm to the circumference of the hips for a loose fit and divide by 2. A = (About + 5 cm)/2
To calculate the height of tier B, it is necessary to divide the length of the product by the number of planned tiers. B = (Di/number of tiers) + 6.5 cm.
All parts are cut out in double quantities (for the front and back).

Now let’s learn more about how to sew a full skirt.

To make lush folds, double the width of the panel. For thin fabric, a larger increase may be required.
Mark the tiers (we have 3) as shown in the diagram above.

When you cut the fabric, you will have the following layout:

Let's start sewing.

1. Sew both 5cm strips along the short edge (this will be the lace for the tie). Fold along the long edge and iron. Fold the raw edges inward 6 mm on each side and sew with a front seam. Tie the ends of the fabric with knots.

2. Place each tier face to face and sew along the sides. Finish the edges to prevent the fabric from unraveling. So, each tier took the shape of a ring.

3. Stitch the bottom edge of the bottom tier with a double-folded, ironed border. In this case, the raw edge of the panel should touch the ironed edge of the border.

4. Along the top edge of the top tier, fold 3 cm of fabric inward. Then fold 6 mm of the raw edge inward again and stitch, leaving 2.5 cm to the top fold (this is where the elastic will go).

5. Take a thread slightly longer than the total length of the middle tier (so that you can tie a knot). Gather the bottom tier onto this thread and distribute the folds evenly. Now the circumference of the lower part of the skirt coincides with the circumference of the middle. Sweep them face to face.

6. Now adjust the circumference of the middle tier to the circumference of the upper one due to the gathers.

7. Sew all basted seams and process them so that they do not fray when in contact with the body.

8. Finally, make a hole for the elastic in the location you planned. Thread an elastic band or string through it.

Your summer ruffled skirt is ready.

Using this skirt as an example, you can now create your own pattern. Experiment with the number of tiers and their width. You can alternate flounces of different widths. An interesting effect is obtained by combining fabrics of different colors: contrasting, alternating or smoothly blending into each other. Play with the trim, try adding ribbons or bows.

Ladies who prefer an elegant, classic style will certainly not ignore this feminine model, which reflects three trends at once - asymmetry, a flared hemline and the “godet” effect. This fashionable combination is achieved by sewing an asymmetrical flounce to the top of the skirt.

Creating a pattern for a straight skirt with a flounce

3. On the back panel of the skirt pattern, measure 24 cm from the bottom along the left side seam, and 12.5 cm along the right side seam and place dots. Connect the dots with a straight line.

4. Mark the details of the skirt and flounces. Draw a grain direction line on each pattern piece. Cut off the flounce parts.

5. Divide the details of the shuttlecocks into eight parts, using a ruler to draw segments from bottom to top. Cut the shuttle along the marked lines, leaving 3mm short of the top edge.

6. Place the flounce pattern on a large piece of paper. Assuming that the direction of the lobe corresponds to the straight line in the center of the part, move its parts apart to the same distance, equal to 7 cm. Fasten the resulting pattern to paper and cut it along the contour (Fig. 2).

7. Lay out the fabric in a single layer, right side up. Lay out the skirt pattern pieces so that the length runs parallel to the edges of the fabric (Fig. 3). Mark the darts with chalk. Cut out the pieces with seam allowances, marking the seam matching reference points.

8. Use the same pieces to cut out the lining if needed.

The sequence of sewing a straight skirt with a flounce

1. Baste and stitch the darts on the front and back panels of the skirt, iron them towards the middle.

2. Connect the front panel of the skirt with the front flounce, and the back panel with the back flounce, right sides inward, and sew. Overcast and iron the cuts.

7. Finish the bottom line of the skirt with an overcast or zigzag stitch. Fold the fabric in at the bottom 1cm and press lightly to remove creases. Make a straight connecting stitch.

8. Perform a double hem on the lining, turning the fabric 1 cm twice. Sew and iron.

You will like this simple cut, but incredibly feminine flounced skirt not only for its simple tailoring, but also for its extraordinary combination of colors. It is created for true connoisseurs of non-standard moves! The rich pink color is muted by the main black color of the skirt and at the same time creates a mood.

Before you start modeling the skirt, you need to build it according to your own measurements. How to do this, read in the section

Rice. 1. Modeling the front and back halves of the skirt

Shorten the front and back halves of the skirt to a length of 45 cm. To do this, set 45 cm down from the waist line and draw horizontal lines for the bottom. Cut along the lines.

To build a flounce, you need to measure the length of the bottom section of the skirt according to the pattern (L). To do this, measure the length of segments AB and CD and multiply by 2 (L=(AB+CD) x 2). To calculate the radius R, we apply the formula: R=L/4.

Rice. 2. Shuttlecock pattern

The width of the flounce of the skirt can be different, depending on the model. The flounce width on this skirt is 25 cm.

Draw the flounce of the skirt as shown in Fig. 2. From point O, draw a semicircle with radius R. Then, from point O, draw a second semicircle with radius R+25 cm. Connect both circles with horizontal lines 25 cm long.

IMPORTANT! After constructing the flounce, check the length of its upper cut - it should be equal to 1/2 the length of the lower cut of the skirt * 1.5.

Shuttlecock pattern without assembly

To create a flounce pattern without assembly, you should measure the length of the lower cut of the skirt in the same way as described above and calculate the radius R1 using the formula: R1 = 1/6 * L - 1 cm, where L is the length of the lower cut of the skirt according to the pattern. After constructing the flounce, check the distance between points O1-O1 - it should be equal to 1/2 the length of the upper cut of the skirt according to the pattern.

Rice. 3. Shuttlecock pattern without gathering

How to sew a skirt with a flounce

Rice. 4. Details of the cut of the skirt with flounce

To sew a skirt you will need: 0.70 m black satin 145 cm wide, 0.55 m pink satin 145 cm wide, hidden zipper, threads.

From black fabric cut out:

The front panel of the skirt is 1 piece with a fold;
Back panel of the skirt - 2 parts;
Skirt belt - 1 piece 7 cm wide (3.5 cm in finished form) and a length equal to the length of the waist section of the skirt plus 3 cm allowance for the fastener.

From pink fabric, cut out:

Skirt flounce - 2 parts.

Allowances for seams and at the bottom of the flounce of the skirt are 1.5 cm. Duplicate the part for the belt.

How to sew a skirt with a flounce

Fold the bottom of the flounce and stitch at a distance of 1 cm from the edge. Sew a hook to the waistband of the skirt. Your skirt is ready! Wear it with pleasure and be happy!

Get inspired by new ideas!

We offer you another skirt for inspiration - its length is significantly below the knee - about 80 cm, the flounce length is about 20 cm. The design of the skirt is similar, but due to the length and flowing crepe de Chine with white polka dots, the skirt looks completely different. A skirt with a flounce can be so different!

Frilly skirts have been around for a very long time. They give the figure a special femininity, but, unfortunately, they are not suitable for everyone. This style will look perfect on a girl or slender young woman, but ladies with curvy figures should avoid it. A DIY ruffled skirt can be sewn in several ways, and we will now discuss some of them.

If your daughter has grown up

Have you decided to learn to sew, but still don’t know what to do? No problem. You can rummage through your daughter’s wardrobe and find last year’s skirt to experiment on it, and at the same time learn some techniques. If it works out - great, if it doesn't work out - it's not a problem either, the skirt is already short anyway. And nothing prevents you from updating your own skirt in the same way, which fits in size, but is already pretty boring.

The easiest option is to make frills. But first you need to choose a fabric - it’s unlikely that you will find in your bins exactly the same fabric as the skirt itself is made from.

Important! By the way, you can decorate any product with frills - a straight, strict skirt, a sun, a half-sun, a bell, and even a denim skirt. True, in the latter case, you need to approach the choice of fabric especially carefully - you can use denim, but nothing prevents you from taking bright satin, tartan and even wide thick lace.

How much fabric do you need?

Before you sew a skirt with frills, or, more precisely, sew frills to the skirt, you need to decide how much material you will need:

Measure the bottom line.
Multiply the result by 1.5-2.

If the frills are made of lace, nothing else is needed - this material is sold by the meter. What if you prefer fabric? Then, as they say, options are possible. And the first thing to do is decide whether you are going to cut the ruffles only along the edge or whether you would prefer to make several seams, but use little fabric. In the second case, you need to make a few more calculations:

Estimate the width of the frill.
See how many times this width fits along the length or width of the cut, depending on how you cut.

Important! Ruffles can be cut both along the grain and along the transverse thread.

Based on the result, calculate how much fabric you need - just don’t forget about the allowances, because if you sew strips, you will have to take a little more material.

Getting ready for the skirt

Before sewing on the frill, the skirt must be put in order. It should be clean and more or less ironed - not perfect, but without visible folds or creases.

Important! The hem requires special attention - it must be straightened, and in many cases this is possible. If not (for example, the fold has become frayed or has changed color), you will have to update the skirt in a slightly different way.

Making a frill

The frill is a stripe. If it is possible to cut it along the edge, great, then you won’t need to process it. But in many cases this is too wasteful. Therefore we do the following:

We draw the cut into strips of the width that you have determined.
Let's cut it.
We sew the pieces into one strip - just don’t forget that the seams should be on the wrong side.
We turn the edge that will be below twice - by 0.5 cm and by 1 cm.
Let's sew.
We sew the upper edge of the frill with a basting stitch, small stitches, or sew it on a machine, but in this case you need to set the maximum stitch length.
We tighten the basting - the gathers should be evenly distributed.
We baste our masterpiece to the bottom of the skirt so that the seam is on the wrong side.
Sew on the frill.
Press the seam allowance to the side of the skirt.

If you can't open the binder

If the edge of the hem is very different from the rest of the skirt, you will have to get out of the situation in the following way:

Prepare the frill - hem it and place a basting stitch along the top.
Sew the frill along the front side, just above the edge of the hem.
Sew the braid on top.

We sew a skirt with a frill

Are you comfortable with the frill? Now you can sew a new skirt. Moreover, the style can be any. The only thing to keep in mind is that when creating a pattern, you need to reduce the length of the product by the width of the frill. Otherwise, the work is no different from what has already been described. But you can make not just one frill, but several, and arrange them differently:

2-3 frills of different lengths at the bottom of the hem;
several frills on top of each other;
one frill at the bottom, the other at an angle.

Option 1. Flared skirt with three ruffles at the hem

We sew a skirt according to any pattern you like - the easiest way is to take those that do not require complex constructions and are cut directly on the fabric, that is, sun, half-sun or bell. The difference between these styles is only in width - the sun is a ring, the half-sun is a half-ring with a notch shifted towards the center, and the bell is a third of the ring, and is cut almost the same as the half-sun.

Let's choose the middle option, that is, the half-sun:

Lay the fabric face down on the floor.
Find the middle of the edge and mark it somehow.
From the mark, draw a line at a 90° angle to the edge.
Along this line, mark the half-circumference of your waist, divided by 6.28 (can be rounded to 6.5).
Using this new mark as a center, draw a circle with the radius you just calculated.
And from the starting point, draw a circle equal to the length of the product, subtracting from it the width of the widest frill - in fact, that’s all, the workpiece is there.

We cut frills

They are cut in the same way as when lengthening an old skirt. Only there should be two or three of them, and the difference in width is 5-8 cm, so that the lower frills are visible from under the upper ones. Prepare the strips in the same way as in the previous case, that is, sew them into long strips, hem or overcast the bottom, and mark along the stitching lines. Next will be the following procedure:

Place the largest frill right side up.
Place the second widest one on it, aligning the top cuts.
Spread the third strip on top - all upper edges should be exactly the same length.
Baste all three strips together.
Baste them to the hem so that the seam is on the wrong side.
Sew on.
Sew the allowances together and iron them to the frill side.
Carefully sew the open edges from the wrong side - either by machine or by hand over the edge.

Important! After this, all that remains is to sew in the zipper (it’s best not to make a special cut for it, but sew it into the one that already exists, using the edges). You can use a wide elastic band as a belt.

Option 2. Frills one above the other

This option is suitable for a straight skirt sewn according to the main pattern. The frills are made the same width:

We sew a skirt - the order is traditional, that is, first the darts, then the side seams, then the belt.
We outline the lines for stitching the frills, which can either overlap one another or be located at some distance.
We prepare the frills in the same way as in all previous cases.
We baste them, starting from the bottom.
Sew, also starting from the bottom.
We sew a braid along the top.

Important! You can, in principle, do without braid if you carefully handle the top of each strip, and the fabric itself is quite thin.

Option 3. Oblique frill

This option also looks better on a straight skirt. In principle, it is no different from the others, but you need to very accurately calculate the oblique frill, which can go, say, from the left of the most convex point of the thigh down to the hem on the right, and then again to the thigh.

DIY skirt with ruffles

A flounce is also a frill, only more complex. And it requires a lot more fabric. These skirts are worn by flamenco dancers.

Important! You can decorate in this way not only the hem, but also the neckline of the dress and the sleeves.

First, let's figure out what a shuttlecock is - it's a ring cut on one side. Several such rings are cut and sewn together. It turns out to be a very fluffy frill.

Important! As in the case of conventional ones, when cutting, the length of the product must be reduced by the width of the shuttlecock.

Straight skirt with flounce

How to sew a skirt with ruffles and elastic? The easiest way to do this is using the main pattern. In the end, it makes absolutely no difference how you decorate the top - a traditional stripe with a button or a modern wide elastic band. True, in the second case it will be better if the fabric stretches at least a little.

The straight skirt pattern is the base pattern. It is according to this that we cut the skirt, shorter than it would be without the flounce. And we sew in a completely traditional way, stitching all the darts, side and back seams (if there are any). And you can even sew on a belt right away - just don’t forget that the elastic should be slightly shorter than the circumference of your waist, otherwise the skirt will not hold well. So what is next? And then the fun begins. It is necessary to determine the size of the shuttlecock itself:

We measure the length of the hem.
We estimate how many rings we need - for example, 10.
We divide the length of the hem by 10, if the result is an integer, this will be the diameter of the inner circumference of our ring.

We cut the rings

You can, of course, cut out all the rings directly from the fabric, but it is best to make a template from cardboard - the risk of error is reduced to a minimum:

We divide the diameter of the ring in half so that we can draw a circle, and it is drawn along the radius.
Draw a circle.
To the already known radius we add the length of the shuttlecock plus the allowance.
Draw a second circle from the same center.
We outline the cutting line - it should go through the center.
Cut out the template and make a cut.

Sew a shuttlecock

The time has come to cut out the elements of the shuttlecock. It's not difficult - just trace the cardboard ring and the cutting line. You can even fold the fabric several times and cut out all the elements at once. What's next? Here's what:

Take 2 rings.
Baste them together along the cut line so as not to mix up the front and back sides.
In the same way, baste the third element and all the others.

This gorgeous skirt with three frills sew on pattern possible in a couple of hours. At the same time, she will look very luxurious! The whole secret of the skirt is in the satin fabric and the cut of the frills.

Before you start modeling a skirt, you need to build it according to your own standards.

Skirt pattern modeling

Click to enlarge the ruffled skirt pattern

Click to enlarge the ruffled skirt pattern.

Description of work:

The waistline of the skirt is lowered by 3 cm. If desired, you can lower the waist of the skirt to 5 cm.

On the back half of the skirt from the waist, set aside 3 cm down. Draw a black dotted line, cut along the line.

Draw dotted lines onto the pattern. The frills will be sewn along these lines.

Model the front of the skirt in a similar way.

Additionally, it is necessary to create patterns for the flounces of the skirt. To do this, measure the distance between the blue marks 1-1 along the front and back of the skirt.

Draw the skirt flounce pattern as shown in pattern 3.

In a similar way, measure the distance on the front and back of the skirt pattern between marks 2-2 and 3-3, respectively.

Draw 2 more flounce patterns - middle and bottom.

The finished width of the shuttlecocks is 20-22 cm. You can reduce or increase it according to your wishes.

How to sew a skirt using a pattern

Baste and sew darts on the front and back of the skirt.

Sew the side seams.

Hem the bottom of the skirt.

Process the flounces along the bottom (tuck and glue with adhesive tape or hem by hand), sew along the top with a stitch 4 mm wide, pull to the desired length, straighten the folds. Place the flounce on the top edge of the skirt, baste, and stitch.

In the same way, stitch the middle and lower shuttlecock according to the markings.

Sew a hidden zipper along the back of the skirt, catch the flounce in the zipper.

Cover the top of the skirt with bias tape and sew a small hook at the top of the zipper.

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