High-Waisted Skirt
Once you have drafted your basic straight skirt sloper, you are ready to draft a high-waist skirt. In this lesson, you will learn our easy step method for raising the waistline and how then how to change a skirt from two darts to a single dart. You will also learn how to draft a facing, so that you will have a beautifully clean-finished waistline.
The skirt sloper needed for this lesson can be found and drafted in our Pattern making lesson: Draft Straight Skirt Sloper or draped in our Draping lesson: Straight Skirt Sloper.
| Module | Description | Step |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lesson Prep | 1-5 |
| 2 | Drafting the Front & Back Skirt High-Waist | 1-3 |
| 3 | Front and Back Darts | 1-4 |
| 4 | Trueing the High Waistline | 1-14C |
| 5 | Skirt Facings | 1-7 |
MODULE 1 • Lesson Prep
| Step | Description |
|---|---|
| 1A | For this lesson, you will need a piece of white unlined pattern paper measuring 22” (55.9cm) wide by 36” (91.4cm) long. |
| 1B | And, for your skirt facings, you will need two pieces of white pattern paper measuring 10” (25.4cm) wide by 8” (20.32cm) long. |
| 2 | You will also need your oaktag basic skirt sloper. |
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