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SONP: 1 Yard 30 Minute Skirt Tutorial and Fabric Giveaway

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I’m so excited to be joining in on Marigold from Hideous! Dreadful! Stinky! ‘s Summer of No Pants series again this year. If you aren’t familiar with the series it’s packed full of tutorials, round ups and giveaways to help us get our skirt and dress on over the Summer and get out of ahem the yoga pants. Today I’m excited to share my super fast 30 minute skirt tutorial. My favorite part is that it only uses 1 yard of fabric and little elastic. Also to help encourage the fun I’m giving away a big bundle of designer fabric and elastic. 6 yards enough to make 6 new skirts or whatever else you want to make out of the fabric!

First the tutorial.

30 Minute Skirt Tutorial using just 1 yard of fabric at Rae Gun Ramblings

  1. You’ll need 1 yard of fabric and about a yard of wide elastic (this depends on your waist size).
  2. First prep your fabric so you have two pieces that are each 22 x 36 inches. I just tear mine along the fold from the bolt.
  3. Then sew the one short side of each piece to each other right sides together so it makes one long skinny piece.
  4. Finish the long edges either on your serger or with a zig zag stitch.
  5. Cut your elastic 5-6 inches SHORTER than your waist measurement. You want it to stretch or it will feel like it’s falling off.

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  6. Mark the center of your elastic and try to stretch it the full length of your fabric piece. You may have to use some muscle. If you can’t stretch it the full length cut even amounts off both ends to however long you can get the elastic to go (I did have to trim my fabric).
  7. With the right side down stretch the elastic and zig zag the fabric onto the elastic.
  8. Then fold the fabric down so the right side of the fabric is up and while stretching the elastic use a zig zag stitch to top stitch the fabric.
  9. With right sides together sew up the skirt so you have a tube.
  10. Finish the hem how ever you like. I just did a simple narrow hem by rolling the fabric under twice. Easy peasy.

30 Minute Skirt Tutorial using just 1 yard of fabric at Rae Gun Ramblings

And then the final step is to take incredibly awkward pictures of yourself with the camera self timer. But really I am a big fan of the skirt I wore it out and about all day and I had a bunch of people compliment me on it. And all this with a super easy to make and easy to wear comfy skirt.

Designer Fabric Giveaway at Rae Gun Ramblings

And be sure to hope on over to check out all the other awesome SONP posts!

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Comments

  6. Lorene says

    Love the fabrics you chose! I stocked up on fun elastic on ebay with the intention of turning a bunch of the fabrics that I inherited from my husband’s grandma’s vintage fabrics into simple skirts — thanks for doing the math work for me! :)

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  9. Jenn says

    quick question, I cannot figure out how to easily do anything on instagram from my computer, do I need to do those parts from my phone? SORRY!

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  10. sjmcclelland says

    Cute skirt! The fact that it takes 30 min to make is tantalizing but sewing is not my forte and every project takes me at least 3x as long as the directions estimate.

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  14. Kay says

    Oh man how cute! I needed a small break from marathon sewing so SONP was alas out of the picture but I would totally love to rock out in some skirts from that awesome fabric!!! I’d promise the fabrics would be put to good use. Cough cough Sew Geeky cough cough;-)

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  20. Jacqueline says

    Alright. Im JUST LEAVING A COMMENT! ;-) However, I will elaborate and say that I had NO CLUE about the Summer of No Pants… Time to get sewing.

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  24. Kelsy says

    Love, love it! I recently started sewing and this looks like the perfect project to help me perfect my sewing. Thanks so much for the tutorial and giveaway!

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  30. Amy mayen says

    I’m loving the bicycle fabric!! What an awesome giveaway! I would’ve entered more, but bloglovin always kicks me out of giveaways. I use their iPad app- hate it! If I have time I’ll get over in the PC and enter some more- because id die to win all that great fabric! Thanks hon!

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  38. Amber Timm says

    Such lovely fabric! I have wanted to try to make these type of skirts for a while now. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  41. Amy says

    Love the geekly chic fabric you used for the skirt! Simple and fun, plus not too hot for our scorching summers- I think I need to make some skirts too. :)
    xoxo

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