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48 + Free Skirt Tutorials
A few weeks ago, I posted an article on making bags, which is an easy place to learn how to sew, but if you’re wanting to start sewing clothes, then a skirt is a nice and easy garment to start with. All of the skirt tutorials below don’t require commercial patterns, but are either pattern-less, or show you how to draw up your own easy patterns. Of course this way, the skirt fits perfectly.
I’ve scoured the web to bring together some great free skirt tutorials. I found so many wonderful skirt tutorials that it was hard to choose which to include. If in doubt, I added a link. I’ve tried to include a variety of styles, sewing techniques, difficulty levels and funky inspiration ideas so that mixing and matching from these tutorials means that you can make almost any type of skirt imaginable. There are a lot of skirts for young girls, but they can be just as easily be made for adults by changing the measurements or vice versa.
As usual, these tutorials are usually for personal use only, not commercial use, consult each individual website for details.
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Simple A-Line Skirts
4. Skinny Skirt
This is actually a video but it gives a good idea of how to make it and looks really easy.
7. Simple short gathered skirt
To draw up a pattern-less a-line skirt, check out this tutorial and this tutorial.
To make a skirt pattern with godets (little flared bits at the bottom, check out this tutorial.
Wrap Skirts
10. Wrap Skirt
11. Short Wrap Skirt
Peasant Skirts
14. Peasant Skirt
15. Peasant Skirt
17. Petticoat skirt
Pleated Skirts
More on making pleats.
Circle Skirts
20. Circle Skirt
For info on a 1/2 circle skirt, click here.
21. Striped Skirt
Panelled Skirts
22. Simple Circle 6 Panel Skirt
23. Fishtail skirt
Check out the same site for a pencil skirt and gored skirt or here for a gored skirt pattern, or here.
Maternity Skirts
25. Maternity Skirt
The author altered this pattern to turn it into a maternity skirt
To draw up a pattern-less a-line skirt, check out this tutorial.
Recycled Skirts
27. Skirt from Man’s Button Down Shirt
Download the tutorial as a PDF
28. Scrap Skirt
29. Skirt From Jeans
Girls Skirts
31. Twirly Skirt 1
32. Strip work Skirt
33. ‘Charming’ Skirt
34. Twirly Skirt 2
37. Twirly Skirt 3
38. Sydney’s Skirt
39. Patchwork A-Line
Something a bit different
40. Bubble Skirt
The black underskirt is a separate tutorial found here.
For a variation on the Lolita skirt see tutorials part one and part two here.
43. Gypsy Skirt
46. Fairy Skirt
48. Victorian Skirt
Know of a great skirt tutorial? Why not add it to the comments section below.
4 Responses to “48 + Free Skirt Tutorials”
December 11th, 2009 at 8:15 am
[...] to discover that the tutorial for the gathered skirts was featured on an Australian site called Frugal and Thriving. They’ve collected a grand total of 48 skirt tutorials, which are well worth a [...]
February 23rd, 2010 at 9:20 am
Help! I was needing to make the Victorian bustle skirt before next weekend but the website that it links to is being “repaired” at the moment. Does anyone have a pattern for it or something like it??
Cheers.
February 23rd, 2010 at 3:34 pm
Hi, the sites seem to be working now fine now.
March 17th, 2010 at 12:24 pm
wow, so compelet.
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