Knit Pencil Skirt

I love stripes, I don't know why, I just prefer striped fabric to any other fabric.

I bought some knit fabric to make the little man some pants, and I had plenty left over, So I made myself skirt. It seriously took like 25 minutes. There is only one seam and some elastic. I didn't even finish the hem. (I didn't want to lose the length, plus knit doesn't fray)

Here is how I made it:

I took a pencil skirt which fit me well and turned it inside out. I folded the fabric in half. I wanted only one seam in the back of the skirt. So I placed the skirt with the front lining up with my fold. I traced the skirt and added about 5 inches to the bottom. I wanted this to be a long pencil skirt:

I cut my fabric:

(Later as I sewed the seam together and tried the skirt on, I realized I should have tapered the bottom if I wanted that pencil skirt look. I fixed it)

So your bottom should be almost as wide as the top:

Then I put the right sides together and sewed the one seam:

Next, I measured my waist and cut some elastic:

Sew the edges of the elastic like so:

Open up the elastic and sew down both of the flaps:

Then put the elastic and skirt with the right sides together (line up the elastic seam with the skirt seam) and pin in 4 places:

Sew the elastic to the skirt. Stretch the elastic as you go:

That's it!

I love my new skirt:

The back:

Now little man and I have matching clothes :)

Yipee!!

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