Little Girl's Spring Skirt
Little Girl's Spring Skirt
A floral embroidery design is the perfect thing to use to create a beautiful skirt for the little girl in your life. You can use the design to fill the entire skirt fabric giving it lots of pop and color. Then use a serger to easily finish the hem. Click here to download printable instructions.
Step 1. Prepare to embroider:
- Hoop cut away stabilizer and fabric in 10 5/8” x 16” embroidery hoop.
- Load Floral Fantasy design or other design for skirt.
- Copy the 7.8” x 7.62” design and move it beside the original design.
- Two of these will fit perfectly in a large hoop and will require three hoopings.
- The camera function was used to verify perfect alignment. For smaller hoops, refer to owner’s manual for continuous designs.
- Load first color of Cotona #30 embroidery thread.
Step 2. Embroider:
- You will be filling the entire 45” of fabric with design, so rehoop as many times as necessary.
Step 3. Serge Hem:
- Set your serger to three-thread narrow hem.
- Place Madeira Cotona #30 in needle, upper, and lower loopers. Test to see which colors you prefer at the top of your hem.
- Serge across bottom of fabric for the entire 45" of fabric.
Step 4. Sew Elastic Casing:
- Fold down 1 ¼” to create casing for elastic.
- Press.
- Sew across the bottom of raw fabric edge to create casing.
Step 5. Finish:
- Thread elastic through casing.
- Sew across each end to secure the elastic.
- Fold skirt in half, right sides together.
- Sew a seam down the raw edges being certain to backstitch over the elastic to create a secure seam.
- Serge a 3-thread overlock to finish the seam.
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