THE SKIRT
Deceptively quick and easy to sew, the Jessica skirt is both elegantly polished and incredibly comfortable. With a deep contoured waistband and three skirt options, you’ll be sure to sew a Jessica for every season and occasion! Choose from full on chic with ladylike knife pleats; create a softer silhouette with girly gathers or get ready to twirl the night away in the panelled circle skirt.
Multi-sized sewing pattern from UK 6 / US 2 up to UK 24 / US 20
This pattern can be printed on 1x A0 copyshop files (pleated & gathered skirt), 2x A0 copyshop file (panelled circle skirt), or 32x A4 sheets (panelled circle skirt) and 21x A4 sheets (pleated & gathered skirt).
Check out to see how other people have made this pattern!
Jessica has been designed to work beautifully in a variety of light and medium weight woven fabrics. Opt for linen, soft cottons (think batiste, double gauze, chambray, seersucker, lawn, broderie, swiss dot etc), drapey and/or floaty silks and rayon. Stiffer fabrics such as taffeta or dupion work particularly well for the gathered variation!
For our featured samples, we used a green printed satin from , rose tencel twill from , blush & red check viscose from and gingham silk dupion from (now closed down sadly).
| VARIATION 1 Pleated | |
|---|---|
| 45" / 1.15m |
Sizes UK6-24: 1.8m / 2yds
|
| 60" / 1.5m | Sizes UK6-24: 1.8m / 2yds |
| VARIATION 2 Panelled Circle | |
| 45" / 1.15m |
Sizes UK6-16: 3.4m / 3.7yds
|
| 45" / 1.15m | Sizes UK18-24: 3.9m / 4.3yds |
| 60" / 1.5m | Sizes UK6-24: 2.9m / 3.2yds |
| VARIATION 3 Gathered | |
| 45" / 1.15m |
Sizes UK6-24: 1.8m / 2yds
|
| 60" / 1.5m | Sizes UK6-24: 1.8m / 2yds |
| Lining - ALL VARIATIONS | |
| 45" / 1.15m |
Sizes UK6-24: 0.4m / 0.5yds
|
| 60" / 1.5m | Sizes UK6-24: 0.4m / 0.5yds |
- Your main fabric
- Your facing fabric
- Pins
- Pinking shears (optional)
- Hand sewing needle
- Matching Thread
- Fabric scissors
- Lightweight wove fusible interfacing
- 9" invisible zipper
- Invisible zipper foot
- Regular zipper foot
- Overlocker (optional)
- Your sewing machine
| Size US/UK | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2/6 | 4/8 | 6/10 | 8/12 | 10/14 | 12/16 | 14/18 | 16/20 | 18/22 | 20/24 |
| Finished Waist | |||||||||
|
25¾in 65¼cm |
26¾in 68cm |
27¾in
70½cm
|
28½in 73cm |
31in 79cm |
33in 83½cm |
36in 91cm |
39in 99cm |
41¾in 106cm |
44½in 113cm |
| Finished High Hip (where skirt meets the waist yoke) | |||||||||
|
33½in 85cm |
34½in 87¾cm |
35½in 90½cm |
36½in 93cm |
38½in 98cm |
40½in 103cm |
43¼in 110cm |
46½in 118cm |
49¼in 125cm |
52¼in 133cm |
| Finished Hips | |||||||||
| 35in 89cm |
36in 91½cm |
37in 94cm |
38in 96½cm |
40in 101½cm |
42in 106½cm |
45in 114¼cm |
48in 122cm |
51in 129½cm |
54in 137cm |
| Finished Yoke Depth | |||||||||
| 4in 10¼cm |
4in 10¼cm |
4in 10¼cm |
4in 10¼cm |
4in 10¼cm |
4in 10¼cm |
4in 10¼cm |
4in 10¼cm |
4in 10¼cm |
4in 10¼cm |
| Finished Skirt Length | |||||||||
|
28in 71¼cm |
28in 71¼cm |
28in 71¼cm |
28in 71¼cm |
28in 71¼cm |
28in 71¼cm |
28in 71¼cm |
28in 71¼cm |
28in 71¼cm |
28in 71¼cm |
