How to sew a leather skirt with your own hands
For the past couple of years, a leather skirt has been an integral part of any fashionista's wardrobe. They come in a variety of colors, styles, and suit any outfit. Are you an office worker or a romantic flirt? Then this skirt is for you. It goes well with shirts and blouses as well as T-shirts and T-shirts. There are also no restrictions in shoes: sneakers, classic pumps, boots with tractor soles. Today we will learn how to sew a leather skirt yourself.
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How to sew a leather pencil skirt
Skirt—pencil – one of the most elegant styles skirts, which the unsurpassed looks like on the women the most different ages. FROM overpriced waist, skirt—pencil looks highly stylishly, and nothing complex to her dream up already not is worth. Enough limit the most ordinary monochromatic shirt or blouse. Skirts—pencil excellent fit in in office dress—the code and business style, but after work in her can to go on the date. She is the best way will emphasize perfect figure.
What do you need:
- sewing machine
- leather 0.5 m
- lining fabric 0.5 m
- wide elastic band 0.7 m
- hidden zipper
- needles for leather
- scissors
- crayon
Measurements on the basis of which pattern built: skirt length - 45 cm, waist circumference - 67 cm, hip circumference - 92 cm.
- We cut out everything our details by scheme of skin and lining material. For Togo so that this is to do, necessary preliminarily pin the cloth pins to paper pattern, circle chalk and cut off by lines, leaving on the allowances 1—1,5 cm.
- We sweep the parts together (separately for the lining and separately for the main material).
- Sew on a sewing machine (leave the middle seam of the back of the skirt unstitched yet).
- Allowances of all seams OK ironing out through x /b the cloth, or knock hammer if a leather highly rough, unfolding seams in different parties.
- Sweeping away and grind off bottom our leather skirts and bottom lining.
- Then we sew a hidden zipper into the middle seam of the back of the skirt.
- We sweep and grind the middle seam of the skirt, aligning the cuts below the zipper.
- Since the skirt is connected to the lining at the bottom, we begin to grind from the top of the lining, retreating a distance equal to the length of the zipper.
- It remains to sew a belt, which we will make from a decorative elastic band 4 cm wide. Sew everything on a typewriter.
- All is ready!
How to sew a leather skirt sun
Leather skirt—the sun looks like highly spectacularly, and by this top to her is worth to choose more modest, so that not to look like through chur defiantly. Deep neckline, blouses in sequins and leopard colors – everything this is taboo for leather skirts—the sun. Top and accessories should be neutral, laconic and strict. But can to do your outfit Little «casual«, if a from such skirt to wear baggy sweaters or denim shirts.
What do you need:
- sewing machine
- leather 1.5 m
- hidden zipper
- threads
- scissors
- crayon
- needles for leather
- We make a drawing of the skirt and belt to calculate the fabric. The skirt will be in two pieces plus a belt. We calculate the radius of the waist circumference (R): R = Ot / 2P. Pi is 3.14. Add 0.5 cm to the assembly in the waist area.
- We cut the fabric.
- Gather up the skirt. Distribute the resulting folds evenly around the waist.
- Sew one edge of the belt to the waist line.
- We sew in a zipper.
- We attach the second edge of the belt.
- We sew the hem of the skirt.
- The skirt is ready!
How to sew a skirt from a leather raincoat, jacket or trousers
Do you have old leather things that have been gathering dust in your closet for half a century? It's a pity to throw them out, and you can't wear them anymore, because they are out of fashion. But you don't have to throw them away! It is now very fashionable to give a second life to old things. Have you ever thought about how to make shorts from old jeans, but how to sew a skirt from a leather coat, jacket or trousers? We'll take a look at how to give new life to an old leather coat. When rework cloak direct cut, model skirts also it is better to choose straight line.
What do you need:
- old leather cloak
- glue "Moment" transparent
- sewing machine
- scissors
- threads
- needles for leather
- crayon
- hidden zipper
- Unpick and remove lining cloak.
- We cut out details by paper patterns, made in advance by your figure.
- Sew along the grooves.
- Sew along the side seams. We glue the allowances and smooth them (not with an iron!).
- We sew in a zipper.
- We cut out the belt according to the waist.
- Sew on the belt.
- We process the hem of the skirt on a sewing machine (pre-glue)
- The product is ready!
