Good morning great minds and happy new month 🥰. Today I will show you how I made this straight skirt and top.
Materials needed. Lining Ankara material Duchess material Breast part Zip Tape Chalk Aiming gum And scissor.
Let me start with the skirt, firstly I fold my material by two measure out the length, hip and waist, and to cut out your hips you measure out five inches from the top to the hips point before you curve it, then I cut it out that's for the front part, and to cut the back,I still fold my material by two and place the front part on it and give out a two inches allowance for my zip, and slitting at the back of the skirt, you can choose to use three inches to but for this I used two.
I also cut out my lining for the skirt and proceed to fix it, both for the back and front. After fixing the lining I proceed to put in my dart , the two sewing stitches like a line at the front and back side of the skirt is what we call dart,it helps to give the skirt fitting. The front.
The back
After all that I join the skirt and fix my zip And here is the skirt.
Now moving to the blouse the first I did I started with the front part by placing my material and measure out six inches from the top and I measure the full length by twenty inches, then I measure out the breast point, from the top to the under burst is ten inches then you mark your ten and also mark your eight inches then four inches also, then at the top you mark three point five inches, and the place you Mark your four inches you place your tape and measure four point five inches and the the place you Mark your eight inches you also mark your three point five inches in other to have your breast shape then you cut it out.
After that you place the first one you cut on the other material and give allowance of ten inches and then you cut out, that's for the side.
After that I proceed to cut out the back side using the same measurement for the length and width, then I cut it out
I also cut out the material I will be using for the hand, which the width is ten inches and the length is twelve inches.
After cutting everything, I also cut out the lining needed for it.
Now to join this i started with the front part by fixing the breast part, after fixing it I iron it and this is it.
I also sew out the lining separate just the way I sewed the breast part and also iron it.
After that I proceed to lining the front part of the blouse, after sewing it round,then I fixed the aiming gum inside at the front top and I iron it to gum.
I also proceeded and fixed the lining for the back side and iron it.
Then for the hand all I did was to plint the material in both side, that's the top and down part of it.
Now I proceed to join the blouse, fixed the hand and zip.
After everything here is the outfit on the lady.
Thank you for checking on my post, wishing you a happy week.