What you will need...•Sewing thread•Sewing machine or hand sewing kit•Sharp scissors•Needles•Pins•Tape measure•1 metre of pretty material (anything you fancy!•1 metre of lining material ( a colour that matches your ‘pretty material’•2 metres of ribbon (any colour you want)

Measure and cut your material• Measure your waist, hips and

bum and write them down• The width of the material is the

size of your hips plus another half measurement of your hips added on.

• Measure yourself from your hip to your knee and add an inch of material to make room for the hem of your skirt. ( the folded up bit of the material so it doesn’t fray.

• This measurement is your length.

• Mark on the material your measurements using the tap measure! (I used masking tape to mark out areas to cut.

• Make sure you do this with both pieces of material.

• Then cut out your shapes.

Hemming and Pinning!• After you have cut all your

material out it is time to start hemming!

• Basically, at the edge of the material fold half an inch back and pin it back (see picture)

• Do this to 3 sides out of 4, leave one of the longer edges hem free!

• This is where you are going to be sewing!

• So do this both pieces of material and to each of the sides.

Lets get sewing!• Whether you are hand sewing or

have a sewing machine. Either way, they will both work and turn out great!

• I used a sewing machine... So be careful and watch you hands if you are a beginner with them.

• Ok, so get the hem of your material and run the sewing machine across the half inch you prepared earlier!

• Try your best to keep the sewing line as straight as possible, otherwise it might look a bit odd!

• Do this to three sides of the four sides on pieces of material, as mentioned before.

Ok! Lets get it together!• Ok, so we have done all the sewing

and hemming.• Next up you need to fetch your

ribbon and attach it to the top both pieces of your material!

• Line the two pieces of material up together and pin the ribbon to the top.

• Make sure you pin both of the pieces of material under the ribbon as you don’t want to have gaps!!!

• Leave a good amount of ribbon out the ends of the top of the material so you have ribbon to wrap around you!

• When it is all pinned and in line, get back on that sewing machine or get back to your needle and thread and attach all three pieces!

• After that, all you have to do is neaten it up by cutting away bits of threads!

Done, done and done!