DIY TENNIS SKIRT/PLEATED SKIRT (with inside short)

Welcome or welcome back to my channel. My name is Jess and I love doing DIY, making clothes in a "simply but pretty" way.

In today's tutorial, I'm going to share with you how I made this skirt with an inside short/pants so that one who worry of wearing a skirt that is too short and can show the butt. But if you don't want the inside short, just skip that part. This skirt is so on trend now and in fact you can create so many different looks with this skirt. That's why I'm so in love with it after finishing. Even I thought it's quite too young for me in the beginning, haha.

So I hope you like it and try it out. Let’s get started!

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

1.5m fabric of lightly woven polyester
Pattern paper
Sewing machine
Pins
Scissors
Ruler
Button

SEWING THE SKIRT

THE SKIRT PATTERN

Cut a long rectangle with 40 cm length which is the length of the skirt wanted. It's the length from the belly button to where you want. And the width of the rectangle is three times your waist size + 10 cm.

From the top, go down 12 cm and draw a horizontal line. It's the length of the pleated part that will be sewn later. In opinion, don't make it longer than that.

At the top, mark at 2 cm from outside first.

Then from that mark, make another mark 4 cm away from each other.

Do the same for the horizontal line as well.

Now fold the group of 3 marks together to create the pleated part. Fold the same for the top and the horizontal line.

Use the pins to hold your folding. Keep folding until the width of the folding is the same with your waist size.

However, the width of the folding at the horizontal line needs to be longer than the upper line. Because it's the part under your belly and above your butt.

So move the folding at this line a bit to make it longer.

Make sure the total width of this folding line will be the width of your body at 16 cm under the belly button + 1 cm.

After that, use the pins to fix the folds between two folding lines. Then sewing these foldings to create the fixed pleated part.

After these seams, make one seam at the top to keep all the foldings stay at the same side and not move around.

Cut at 2 cm extra at two sides of the skirt for the zipper later.

At the end of the skirt, fold the end fabric two times to hide the cutting and to finish the hem.

Now it's time to make the pleated for the rest of the skirt under the foldings. Fold them together to make sure it's nice first.

Then use the iron to create the pleating. Next step is making the pants inside the skirt. If you don't want to make it, you can skip this part.

THE PANTS INSIDE THE SKIRT PATTERN

Cut two rectangles with 32 cm length which is the length of the skirt - 8 cm and 69 cm width which is 1.5 times a half of the hip size.
At the left side, draw a straight line at 5 cm inside.
Then connect this line to the outside line at 5 cm upper the end.
At the right side, do the same but with the straight line at 8 cm inside.
After that, draw another line at the middle between two straight lines to divide the pants to two parts, the front and the back pants.