Hacked Skirt pattern - S1071 Sinclair Patterns Moon wide leg woven pull on pants, culottes and shorts

Do you every make up a pattern and think, I like this, but wouldn't it also look good as a .... Well, that happened to me.

After making up the Sinclair Patterns Moon Pants and liking the fit around the waistline, and while I was driving home from work, I had that light bulb moment where I thought, wouldn't this pattern make a great skirt?

However, I had two light bulb moments.  I had a dress that I had made from a lovely linen a friend had given me some time ago.  Initially I made it up into a halter neck dress, wore it once, loved the fabric thought that I'd better make it up into something else.  I took off the bodice and made it into a flared skirt, wore it a couple of times and, I still was not happy with it.

So, what if I could simply alter the Moon pants pattern to become a skirt from what I had left of the halter neck dress/now flared skirt?  So my quest began.

To tell you the truth, the alteration that needs to happen is initially in the pattern.  It's two simple things.

1  Measure the distance between the CF/CB seam to the straight grain:

     In my case the distance was 11.5 cm.  I marked this point at the beginning and end of the straight         grain.

2   I then connected the two points and drew a line:

3   I then folded over the pattern so that I had a new CF (Center Front) and CB (Center Back):

4   Then I placed the CF and CB onto the fold and cut the front and the back piece on the fold.

5   Follow the sewing instructions 1 - 5, as is in the instructions.

6   Skip instructions 6 - 8

7   Follow instructions 9 - 16

I also extended the length of the ties, and I didn't place any interfacing in the ties.

I really like the skirt, and the final version that that this fabric will be made in.

That's it and there you have it the S1071 Sinclair Patterns Moon Skirt (I guess), but I'm sure that Oxana Sinclair could improve on what I've done here.

Happy sewing everyone.

Sandra

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