Making a reversible skirt gets you two skirts with the effort of making one – just turn the skirt you have inside out and you have a completely new skirt and no one will know they are the same. A 1″ wide elastic waistband is used for this skirt.
How do you sew a reversible top?
To make a reversible garment with the layered method, cut two of each pattern piece, with one piece in each fabric. Baste or glue baste the matching pieces to one another, with wrong sides together. Sew the garment, using these two basted pieces as one, just like when you underline.
What is a reversible skirt pattern?
This is a pattern for making a full skirt with a big flare with an elastic waistband and the reversible principle can be applied to other types of skirts too.
How to make a full skirt?
Use complementing colors and not contrasting colors so that even if the inner skirt peeks out, it would not look odd. For making the full skirt pattern you need a fabric with a lot more width than you normally get- usually fabric comes in widths like 36 inch and 44 inch with 44 inch being the normal width.
How do you sew a skirt with elastic?
Stitch the elastic and the skirt together; sew exactly in the middle of the elastic. As you sew, Stretch the elastic. When everything is finished the elastic waistband will gather the skirt top edge. Turn the skirt rightside out – the seams of the skirt pieces will be facing each other and both the sides look neat.
How do you make a French seam on a skirt?
Give only a very small seam allowance or better to make a french seam so that the edge stitching is concealed even when you use the reverse side. Turn your outer skirt right side out and inner skirt wrong side out. Insert the right side out outer skirt to the inside of the wrong side out inner skirt.
