Miniskirt Tutorial

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Miniskirt Tutorial

Post by Zombee » Wed Apr 22, 2009 6:00 pm

TUTORIALS:
http://whatthecraft.com/tuts/ruff.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqNzQeTAXwQ

Original Message: Ive been looking around and I can't seem to find a simple step by step tutorial.
I found one on craftster.com but it wasn't very detailed in its instructions. i mean it showed the iron pleating part but i get confused about the how to sew it all together part... (I'm still pretty new to sewing..)
Just wondering if anyone knows a step by step one.

thanks!
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Re: Any one know a good pleated mini skirt tutorial??

Post by [[Violet.Nightmare]] » Wed Apr 22, 2009 11:27 pm

what kind of pleats do you want? the ones that go one way round or the ones that face each other?
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Re: Any one know a good pleated mini skirt tutorial??

Post by Zombee » Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:51 am

one way around sounds right. lol
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Re: Any one know a good pleated mini skirt tutorial??

Post by [[Violet.Nightmare]] » Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:47 pm

sorry they were terrible ways of describing it >.< i cant do much of a photo one for you because im not intending on making one untill christmas but ill see what i can do over the weekend or next week
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Re: Any one know a good pleated mini skirt tutorial??

Post by Zombee » Fri Apr 24, 2009 3:09 am

lol i got what you meant.
i would appricate it soooo much...
if you could even just show how (or explain how) to sew the pleats to the "waist band/ top of skirt"
i understand the fold for the most part, and that ironing helps keep the fold.. im jsut confused as to how you sew it so the pleats stay.. its probably easier than i think.. but when i tried it before the pleats got all bunched..
thank you again!!
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Re: Any one know a good pleated mini skirt tutorial??

Post by [[Violet.Nightmare]] » Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:14 pm

you basically just iron them down as much as possible and sew the waist band over them. I like to sew the dirrection that the pleats are folded in. I also recomend sewing down the edges of the pleats a bit to keep them in place as your adding the waistband, just the bits your not going to see, i find this can make it a little less bulky and keeps them in place for longer

i know your problems. I did werk experience for a designer and they had me pleating (i'd never done any at this point), it was apsolute hell for weeks. I had to pick the season with pleats :lol:
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Re: Any one know a good pleated mini skirt tutorial??

Post by Zombee » Mon Apr 27, 2009 2:44 am

thank you so much. that really helps! your my hero! lol

do you make lots of clothes?
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Re: Any one know a good pleated mini skirt tutorial??

Post by [[Violet.Nightmare]] » Mon Apr 27, 2009 11:12 am

erm a few. Im in the middle of my A-levels atm so no time for anything fun :( hoping to get a corset done in the next few days though for a party :D and if my sewing machine decides it going to be nice ill get back into it

good luck with the pleating. Let me know how it goes
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Re: Any one know a good pleated mini skirt tutorial??

Post by Seikyo » Fri May 01, 2009 7:29 am

I was looking for this tut a while ago . . .

and found this :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqNzQeTAXwQ

I hope this helps .
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Re: Any one know a good pleated mini skirt tutorial??

Post by [[Violet.Nightmare]] » Sun May 03, 2009 12:19 am

this is basically what i was trying to explain

http://whatthecraft.com/tuts/ruff.htm

or for anyone else who wants one there the whole making a pleated skirt tut on there
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Re: Miniskirt Tutorial

Post by VixenSingsBlack » Wed May 06, 2009 5:20 am

Zombee: I slightly altered your first post and title to make this thread more accessible for other users.

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Re: Miniskirt Tutorial

Post by Zombee » Thu May 07, 2009 4:49 pm

oo Thank you Seikyo and Violet! Those both help. Visual images usually work better for me than written. lol
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