{"id":292,"date":"2008-07-11T18:35:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T22:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=292"},"modified":"2011-02-24T13:45:09","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T18:45:09","slug":"simple-a-line-skirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/simple-a-line-skirt\/","title":{"rendered":"simple a-line skirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been very busy crafting this week, but most of it isn&#8217;t <em>quite<\/em> ready to show off yet. But I&#8217;m feeling proud of myself, because I made a new skirt from scratch in an evening, and without a pattern:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/skirt1.jpg\" alt=\"A-line skirt with elasticated waist\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was really easy &#8211; I just traced around an existing skirt, added seam allowance, cut the fabric (I used 100% cotton) on the bias, sewed the sides together, and then sewed a loop of elastic in at the top and hemmed the bottom. The elastic waist gathers the fabric around the top, and you can just pull the skirt on and off. <\/p>\n<p>I decided that I wanted the gathers around the waist to be perfectly even, so I stretched the elastic to the same width as the fabric and then sewed them together. Then I had to stretch it all out again so I could sew down the waistband to hide the elastic. With hindsight, I&#8217;ve thought of a much simpler method that will look just about the same and take a fraction of the time. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to make another skirt with my simpler method &#8211; it&#8217;s a really cute simple summery skirt and it would work with pretty much any kind of fabric. Would anyone be interested in a tutorial? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been very busy crafting this week, but most of it isn&#8217;t quite ready to show off yet. But I&#8217;m feeling proud of myself, because I made a new skirt from scratch in an evening, and without a pattern: It was really easy &#8211; I just traced around an existing skirt, added seam allowance, cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}