Simple Skirt

by Aja Jensen
(Issaquah, WA, USA)

Fabric
1/2 inch elastic


1. Measure from your waist to your knee and add two inches.
2. Cut one piece of fabric the width of your measurement.
3. With rights sides together sew a 5/8 inch seam down the selvage edge and press open.
4. You will have a tube of fabric now.
5. On both ends of the tube press in a one inch fold. Then open the fold and press a 1/2 inch fold. Finally fold the fabric over twice on the lines you have pressed and press again.
6. On the bottom edge stitch all the way around on the fold to make the hem.
7.On the top edge stitch almost all the way around on the fold. Leave a two inch opening for the elastic. (make sure you stitch right on the edge of the fold so you leave room for the elastic to slide in.)
8. Measure your waist and cut a piece of elastic that length.
9. Take two safety pins and pin one end of the elastic to the opening. Take the other safety pin and pin it just to the elastic. Use this safety pin to push the elastic through the opening and all the way around the waist.
10. When both ends of the elastic are at the opening overlap the ends by a 1/2 inch and sew them together (without sewing on the skirt fabric.)
11. With the elastic inside the casing you made finish stitching on the fold until the opening is closed.
12. Your finished. Try on your skirt.