Measuring & Drawing Inserts for Skirt Alterations

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Summary: Measure and outline inserts for clothing alterations. Learn how to turn shorts into a skirt in this free sewing video.

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Julia635 Melina Piroso was born in Argentina and raised in the USA. She studied Fine Arts at FIU in Miami, and Fashion Design at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. ... read more

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Measuring & Drawing Inserts for Skirt Alterations

Hi, I'm Melina and welcome to Expert Village. In this next step, we're going to measure and draw our triangles that we're going to put inside of the leg space. So, you're going to take your ruler. You're going to start at the bottom hem and you're going to measure all the way up to the crotch area. And I see that from hem to crotch we have sixteen and a half inches. So, when I make my triangle I'm going to cut it seventeen and a half inches. I want a half an inch above and a half an inch below, which is right here and I'm going to mark off that line. And then I'm going to decide how wide do I want to make the triangle that I'm putting in. And I think I'm going to make it pretty wide. I want the skirt to flare out a lot. So, I'm going to try and find the middle of this line, and it looks like it's about fourteen inches, so I'm going to start about right there. I'm going to make a point and then I'm going to measure from this point down to the very bottom and I'm going to do the same thing on this side.