DIY Circle Skirt Dress (aka Skater Dress)

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• published: 12 Jan 2014
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My first ever youtube video :D Baby sewer learns how to make a dress! ↓ Please read the description box for tutorial tips and details ↓ && Support me on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/annikavictoria Cutting out a circle-skirt using plain/multi-directional fabric: http://birdeemag.com/diy-make-your-own-circle-skirt/ HELLO, PLEASE READ IF YOU WANT TO MAKE THIS DRESS! This is a tutorial designed for *beginning sewers* - that will give you more experience in sewing by teaching you how to make a very simple dress! PLEASE NOTE: It's not an exact method for making a dress (we don't have exact seam allowances, for example), but it generally will work out pretty well. Just make sure that you keep trying on & fitting the dress to your body to see where it needs to be more fitted, or more relaxed, and where darts may need to be added, etc. It may not work as well for people with particularly large busts. While this method does work for most people (see #diyannika on instagram for heaps of examples!) if you're having lots of trouble getting the right fit, then I would recommend 1. playing around with the pattern by changing the curve of the armholes and slope of the shoulders and 2. getting any random thrift-shop pattern that has a bodice piece to help you base your own pattern off. You will probably need to alter and play around with the bodice pattern a little bit until you find one which works for you. That's why I recommend using some cheap material like bedsheets for your first dress, haha. ****If you're more experienced in sewing, and want to find a pattern that will fit you more exactly, then this isn't the tutorial for you.**** FABRIC The fabric that I used was an old thrifted bedsheet that I got second-hand for $5! I recommend using something like this for your first few attempts at dress-making, because they're likely to be imperfect (practice makes perfect - this is probably the 9th or 10th dress I've ever made and I'm much better now than when I started out!) However, if you're buying proper fabric specifically for this dress, you'll probably need about 2 meters of the stuff, and it should be light-weight and mostly cotton, but something that doesn't crinkle easily (scrunch the fabric up tight in your hands, then see if the creases remain - if they do, don't buy it for this project because you'll endlessly be ironing your dress). If you make one, send me a picture on instagram! Tag your creations with #diyannika See the outfit photos and details for this dress: http://www.pineneedlecollective.com/2014/01/from-bedsheets-to-dress-diy-52-factorial.html All music used in this video is Creative Commons licensed 3.0. Featured artists include 8bit Betty: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/8bit_Betty/ ('Blast Off' and 'Was that away message for me?' were used) RoccoW: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/RoccoW/ Goto80: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Goto80/ Find me elsewhere on the internet: ► BLOG http://www.pineneedlecollective.com/ ► INSTAGRAM http://instagram.com/littlepineneedle ► TWITTER https://twitter.com/littlepinetree3 ► FACEBOOK https://www.facebook.com/PineneedleCollective ► PINTEREST http://www.pinterest.com/littlepinetree3/ ► MERCH https://paom.com/designer/annikavictoria/#/profile-designs