How to make a classic gathered skirt

Welcome to a new pattern making class. In today’s class, I’m going to teach you how to make a classic gathered skirt.

We are going to use this class as an example to introduce different concepts of industrial pattern making.

We already know that the seam allowance changes depending on the type of finish you want to make.

For example, a French seam may require more seam allowance than an open seam.

In this class, we are going to delve a little deeper into this topic.

The concept I’m going to teach you today is how to square off the seam allowance.

Squaring off the seam is done at points where sewing can become complicated or to make the sewing process faster.

It is especially done on necklines so that when we put the shoulders together, they fit perfectly.

This technique is especially used when we send patterns to the factory, to make their work easier and avoid errors.

That said, this technique is not exclusive to factories, and some professionals also use it.

Class

Another technique I want to talk about today is volume ratios, although you’ll see this in more detail in the class on how to add volume.

Volume ratios are how much volume we add to a garment and this will depend on different factors.

The factors to consider are the type of final fabric we are going to use in a garment and the finish we want to give it.

As always, if you have any questions, remember you can email me through your student account, in the support section.

Submit your exercises

You already know that the best way to learn is by practising, so for today’s class, I’m going to ask you to make the patterns for the classic gathered skirt.

You can make them half scale or full size.

Please try to send me photos where the patterns and their annotations are clearly and precisely visible so I can give you better feedback.