Burda Style For people who sew

Description

It’s been a while since I’ve had time to sew anything, and I was thrilled to finally be able to start in on my personalized skirt sloper project! I have a slightly more complicated pencil skirt that I’m planning to make eventually from this pattern, but for the first go I decided to stick with a pretty easy pencil skirt pattern in a nice, forgiving wool (I love sewing wool!).

I used a pencil skirt pattern from an old burda magazine as a starting point for my muslin. For fitting the skirt, I found this vintage guide very helpful, even if the body-shaming language sprinkled throughout is quite annoying. The “analysis of individual skirt sloper” part has some good diagrams that helped me figure out how to fit my shape (I have a bit of a tummy on the front, narrow hips relative to my waist, and a round butt). In my case, I eliminated the front darts and deepened the back darts so that the skirt was flat in the front and nice and fitted over my butt. I also made the waistline slightly curved so that the length of the skirt is shortest in the front and longer as it goes toward the back (I need that extra fabric at the back so that my butt doesn’t make the rear hem of the skirt lift up). I also pinched out a bit of extra fabric at the sides of the skirt to make it more fitted at the hips.

I used the Cupcake Goddess’ super tutorial for lining the back vent. I was a bit stumped when I got to this part, and was happy to find that someone had already posted a nice solution to the problem.

I always try to incorporate at least one new technique into each project I do, especially if it’s a simple project. So for this skirt, I decided to do a lapped zipper. I used a nice metal zipper instead of a plastic one. I’m really beginning to love metal zippers because they’re easy to shorten to the exact length you need, and they feel substantial enough to last a long time.

Now that the skirt is done I need to make a top in a nice, bright color so I can have a Mondo-inspired work outfit!

Material Notes

Houndstooth wool from gorgeousfabrics.com Leftover black lining fabric

Categories

Season

Winter

For

Women

Garment Type

Skirt

Style

Classic

Material

Polyester, Wool