Sewing a Summer Skirt. With Pockets!
Last week I decided to make a skirt from a sewing pattern I’d spotted on Pinterest ages ago. I made it last Friday. The night before, I drew out the pattern pieces and cut out the fabric ready for the next day. The pattern is for a summery skirt on sewinglikemad.com, which has the basic formula for the skirt and you kind of work out for yourself how it goes together. It has a useful link for making the waistband, which is much better than a plain elasticated waistband. I also found a video tutorial to help me put the pockets together. I can’t remember if I’ve ever done pockets before.
Pocket Facings
The above photo shows pinning the pocket facings onto the front of the skirt. It was very easy to do and quite good fun. A step up from my normal sewing level, which isn’t usually adventurous.
Once I had sewn and pressed the facings, I added the main pocket piece to each side.
What I should have done next was gather the whole piece across the top. However, I had already gathered the front main piece of the skirt before I attached the pockets. I should have waited until this stage. I had to do a teeny extra bit of gathering at the pockets to make it the same size as the waistband, ready to sew them together.
This is it all stitched together. It didn’t take very long to get to this stage at all. It was definitely helpful to follow the link in the pattern to make the waistband. I was so impatient to get it finished, I kept to my usual of 1inch elastic rather than three lots of thinner stuff. However, next time I will be up for making the smaller casings as it creates a really nice finish to the waistband.
Sewing a Summer Skirt with Pockets
This is not a particularly good picture, but it is good enough to demonstrate what my new summer skirt looks like. I’m enormously pleased with my new handmade skirt!! My favourite bit is the deep pockets. I’m pretty sure I’m going to be adding pockets to everything now.
That’s great. I love skirts with pockets, especially in the summer as I usually keep a hankie in my jumper pocket during the winter and really miss it in the summer!
One of the most frustrating things is going to put something in your pocket only to discover you haven’t got any!
I’m so happy that it worked out for you and that you learned some new tricks…isn’t that fun! Your skirt looks great. I love the fabric you used! Thank you for linking to my post.
Thank you for letting me link! I’ll definitely make this skirt again.