Not Interested Entertainment

How To Make a Cir­cle Skirt

By Daisy Viktoria

You will need:

fab­ric of your choice (amount deter­mined below)

1” elas­tic (or 7 – 9” zipper)

match­ing thread

tape mea­sure or yard stick

embell­ish­ments

Step 1. Plan the skirt, and deter­mine how much fab­ric you need.

First, mea­sure around your waist, or wher­ever you want the skirt to sit. Next, mea­sure the length you want the skirt to be.

–If you are using elas­tic in the waist­band, mea­sure around the largest part of your hips and add a few inches. This is to make sure the skirt fits over your hips when you put it on.

–For a zip­per, you only need that waist mea­sure­ment. Just add seam allowance.

This is where geom­e­try comes in. The for­mula you need is C=2*pi*r. (Cir­cum­fer­ence = 2 x pi x radius.)

That hip mea­sure­ment (or waist, for a zip­per) is the cir­cum­fer­ence of your open­ing. To get the radius, just solve for r. (I admit, I’m a math nerd, so I’ll explain in more detail for those who don’t remem­ber alge­bra. Divide the cicum­fer­ence by pi (3.14), then divide that by 2.)

Now, add that radius to your length.

–If your fab­ric is more than twice this num­ber, you will need (radius plus length)*2 plus some fab­ric for the waistband.

–If your fab­ric is less than twice this num­ber, you will need (radius plus length)*4 plus some fab­ric for the waistband.

Step 2. Cut out the skirt.

Since we’ve already mea­sured every­thing, this is now the easy part.

Mark a point for the cen­ter of the cir­cle. Mea­sure the radius from that point, and draw a curve. Mea­sure (radius plus length) from that point, and draw another curve. Cut this out. You may cut it in halves or in one full cir­cle, depend­ing on the width of your fabric.

To make the waist­band, take your hip (or waist for zip­per) mea­sure­ment with some seam allowance added. Cut a rec­tan­gle of this length, and dou­ble the width you want the waist­band. Since we are using 1” elas­tic, I rec­om­mend about 3 – 4”, depend­ing on how much seam allowance you are com­fort­able with.

Step 3. Sew it together.

If your skirt is two half cir­cles, sew these together into one large cir­cle. If you are using a zip­per, make sure you leave an open­ing for the zipper.

Sew the waist­band to the top of the skirt, leav­ing an open­ing. Cut a piece of elas­tic that fits com­fort­able around your waist. To insert the elas­tic, attach a safety pin to the end, and thread it through the waist­band. Then sew the ends of the elas­tic together and close the waistband.

For a zip­per, attach the waist­band and insert the zipper.

Hem the bot­tom of the skirt. A cir­cle hem is tricky to get flat, so iron­ing should help. Alter­nately, you could use bias tape or some other trim to con­tain the raw edge.

Add embell­ish­ments to your liking.