DIY lace skirt

Delicate, airy, with a bewitching pattern ... All this is about lace. Probably, there will be no girl who would not be attracted to this fabric. Due to the variety of types and colors, as well as compatibility with almost all styles, everyone will find in it something for themselves. In recent years, no fashion show is complete without this airy and delicate fabric. From lace make skirts, dresses, trousers, shorts. Any thing from it looks refined and refined. In this article, we will try to figure out how to sew a lace skirt with our own hands.

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Choose a style

To be stylish, but not look ridiculous, you should choose the style of the skirt, depending on the type of your figure. Before deciding how to sew a lace skirt, you need to determine what it will be:

1. Pencil skirt is a classic of the genre. And therefore, it will suit the owners of any figure - both thin and full girls. A short one should stay on the high-waisted version, for girls with a plus size, the length to the knee is ideal, which will visually stretch the figure.
2. A sun-skirt or half-sun is well suited for those who do not have enough volume on their hips. Visually, such a style gives splendor to the forms, and only in the hips, while he emphasizes the waist at the same time.
3. A-line skirt is a universal option for all figures. It hides wide hips, and at the same time, it can increase narrow ones.
4. The skirt is suitable for the owners of the hourglass figure. This style perfectly emphasizes all the advantages of the figure.
5. Miniskirts that never go out of style are designed for slim, but not thin. This style lengthens the legs, especially in combination with high-heeled shoes.

If you decide how to sew a lace skirt with your own hands, then stylists recommend stopping on the listed styles. There is of course also a skirt with draperies, a maxi skirt, a bell skirt, a tulip skirt, but these lace options will look completely unprofitable on any figure.

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Work with lace

Before you sew a skirt of lace, it is worth considering a few more important nuances. When choosing the fabric itself, focus on high-quality, albeit not the cheapest options. A product made of such material will last you a long time, it will always look like new. After a couple of washes, cheap fabric even quickly stretches even in delicate mode, the fibers are knocked out of the fabric and clothes take on an untidy appearance.

Here's what professional seamstresses advise:

• If you are planning on sewing a narrow skirt, for example, a pencil or a mini, it is best to choose an elastic knitted lace. It will fit perfectly and will not burst at the seams every time you lean or sit down.
• When choosing a model, preference should be given to options with a minimum of seams. Then the lace will not lose its texture and pattern.
• Also, in order not to disturb the pattern with seams and cuts, experienced seamstresses do not make darts on lace products - they are simply transferred, for example, to the fitting line.
• For lacy clothing, choose a suitable lining. If you have an elastic fabric, then the lining also needs to be selected from an elastic fabric.
• If you want to emphasize, highlight the pattern, then take a lining of a contrasting color, it can be either darker or lighter.

Important! Remember: you need to iron this material very carefully, at the lowest low temperature. It is based on synthetic fibers, which, under the influence of an iron, can melt, and the fabric will have to be thrown away. It is best to steam lace through wet gauze.

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Elastic skirt

A straight skirt with an elastic band is the simplest and easiest style to sew. The seam in this product will be one - on the side or back, as you like. First we need to take only 3 measurements:

• Waist circumference.
• Hip girth.
• Skirt length.

We will also need lace and lining fabric. The latter can be either in the color of lace or in contrast. For example, lace is black and lining is yellow. And of course, you can’t do without a sewing machine and an elastic band.

Getting started:

1. Hip circumference multiplied by 1.5. For example, if you have this measure of 90 cm, then the width of the skirt will be 1.35 cm. Select the length that you need.
2. Based on these parameters, cut out the rectangle from the lace, not forgetting to add allowances for the seams of 1 cm on each side.
3. By the same principle, cut out the lining fabric. Only the length needs to be reduced by 3-4 cm so that the petticoat is shorter than the skirt itself.
4. Sew separately the lace fabric and the lining fabric. Seams can be processed on an overlock or using a slanting inlay, but this must be done, as lace and lining are loose fabrics.
5. Next, we insert the lining in the lace and from above we manually sweep the parts together, so it will be more convenient to sew the belt.
6. Then we take an elastic band - it’s better to take a wide one, with it the skirt will look more elegant. We measure the required length at our waist.
7. Sew the joined lace and lining details to the elastic, stretching it evenly over the entire length of the fabric.

Your skirt is ready!

Another option is possible on how to sew a lace skirt, but with a thin elastic band. First, repeat steps 1 to 5. And then:

1. Bend both layers of fabric into the future product by 2-3 cm.
2. Sew this bend to the edge on a typewriter.
3. Do not join the seam in a circular, leave a distance of 1-2 cm between the beginning and end of the seam.
4. In this hole you insert a thin elastic band of the length you need, connect its ends to each other.

And again the work is done!

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Lace Skirt

The preparatory work for this style of skirt is still the same as in the previous version. Cut a rectangle from the fabric, repeat the same on the lining. Farther:

1. Make a side seam on the lace and on the lining separately. From above you do not finish 10 cm to the end of the seam - here we will insert a zipper.
2. Insert the lace into the lining, connect both panels with each other on top. Now on this part you need to do the assembly of the fabric. To do this, on a typewriter, lay along the top of the seam, with the largest stitches, and then, pulling one of the threads, add evenly the fabric.

After proceeding with the manufacture of a stitched belt:

• It is usually made of fabric of the same color as lace. But the material should be more dense.
• The length of the belt will depend on the circumference of your waist, you need to add 1 cm to it for allowances.
• The standard width of the belt is 5 cm.
• Our belt will be double, folded in half, which means that in the end you need to take a strip of fabric 10 cm wide, plus 1 cm on each side for allowances.

Next, we perform the following operations:

• The detail of the belt is reinforced with adhesive fabric over the entire width.
• Before sewing a one-piece belt to the cut of the skirt, it must be ironed in half.
• Now you need to check whether the length of the belt matches the length of the top of the skirt. In the process of wet-heat treatment, the fabric may shrink, and the belt will become simply small for you.
• We pin the belt to the cut of the skirt with pins so that the edge of the belt is flush with the edge of the cut of the skirt. The front side of the belt is applied to the wrong side of the skirt.

Important! For beginners it is better to perform this operation with threads, sweep manually.

• Now we are laying a seam 1 cm from the cut. Iron the resulting seam up.
• We bend the free edge of the belt along the entire length by 1 cm from the edge into the part and iron it.
• Now we just have to “close” the belt. Initially, it is ironed in half with us, so this process is not of great complexity. Sew the belt to the skirt along the edge of the bend, laying a line 1 mm from the edge. We make sure that the fabric lies evenly and the belt does not warp.
• Now we just need to insert the zipper and the product is ready.

After we studied this method, the question of how to sew a lace skirt with our own hands does not seem so difficult.

Important! By the same principle, you can make a pleated skirt. At the stage when you connect the lace with the lining, on the top you need to do not assemble, but lay the required depth of the fold, and also sew in the set-in belt.

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Lace Pencil Skirt

Now consider the option of stitching a lace pencil skirt. For this style, you can use a simple basic pattern of a straight skirt or just use the existing pencil skirt as a template, which you like and fits in size. Remember to make allowances for the seams.

Here is the procedure:

1. Cut out the details of the skirt from lace fabric and from the lining. In this embodiment, the lining can be of any length. The option will look good 3-4 cm above the lace part. But you can make the lace part below the knee, and the lining to the middle of the thigh. Here the choice is entirely up to you.
2. We make side seams on the lace and on the lining. Do not forget that one of the seams must be laid, leaving 10 cm to the top free. We will sew a zipper here. This applies to both the lace part and the lining part.
3. We process the seams on the overlock either with the help of a zig-zag stitch, or with the help of a slanting inlay.
4. We add both parts of the skirt, investing in each other. Carefully combine them along the side seams.
5. Now lay the tucks. We make them right away, grabbing both parts - both lace and lining.
6. Next, we sew in the set-in belt according to the same principle that we considered in the previous versions.
7. We attach a zipper to the left unsealed seam. It’s best to catch the zipper manually.
8. We sew the zipper, aligning its end with an inflection on the set-in belt.
9. We measure the finished product, and we understand that your favorite and very stylish pencil skirt has appeared in your wardrobe.

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Subtleties in working with lining fabric

It is worth mentioning separately about how to sew a lined lace skirt. Duplicate fabric - thin and moody. There are several secrets in working with her:

• When cutting lining from dense, non-elastic fabrics, it is necessary, in addition to the seam allowance, to make an allowance for freedom of fitting + 2 cm to the OB (hip circumference).
• If the fabric is elastic, then an allowance for freedom of fit is not needed.
• So that the lining does not bulge when walking, it must be grabbed to the allowances of the side seams of the skirt.
• If there are folds on the main panel of the skirt, then they must also be laid on the lining.

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Processing the bottom of lace

A lace skirt with your own hands will look very elegant if you beautifully handle the edges of the product. There are several options:

• The easiest way is to make the usual hem in 1-2 cm and stitch the edge of the lace. Previously, the edge of the hem must be processed on the overlock or with a zig-zag stitch so that the fabric does not crumble.
• Things are even simpler with scallops. These are curly protrusions of various shapes along the edge of the material. If such material was initially selected, then processing is not needed. The main thing - when cutting, correctly calculate the length by combining the length of the product with scallops.
• In a skirt of lace fabric without scallops and lace with large lace, the lower sections are not processed, but simply neatly trimmed with scissors along the edge of the lace pattern.

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Complement your favorite skirt with lace

If you understand that all of the above options are not for you, then consider how to sew a skirt with lace.As a basis, you can take your favorite thing from the wardrobe and update it with a strip of lace:

1. Lace decor can be sewn on the edge of the product, applying a strip both above and below - both options will look advantageous.
2. The lace that you will be sewing can be either narrow - 1-3 cm, or wide - up to 20 cm. By the way, the last option is now in trend. Especially often there are options when a wide strip of thin lace is sewn to woolen skirts or dresses. This combination of completely different textures gives an amazing effect.
3. You can also make an insert of lace on the bottom of the hem. To do this, cut off the bottom of the hem, the width of the strip can be 3-4 cm. Now sew the lace strip to the main part of the skirt, and sew the cut strip of the skirt to it. And you get an interesting tier that will add a twist to both your dress and your skirt.

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Now that we have considered all the options for sewing a lace skirt with our own hands, you can safely go to the fabric store. Knowing all the subtleties, you can create a new thing for yourself from exquisite lace, or you can update your favorite thing with decor. The choice is yours!