A slot is a variant of a slit on a narrow skirt, jacket or coat. It is done so that the one who will wear the product can move freely. On a classic skirt, the slot is made at the back, but in principle it can be located both in the front and on the side.
It is necessary
- - fabric for the skirt;
- - chalk or soap;
- - scissors:
- - ruler;
- - iron:
- - non-woven or other material for duplication;
- - sewing accessories.
Instructions
Step 1
Before you start to cut the skirt, decide where the slot will be and where it will be ironed. The incision on the back is smoothed to the left, the front - to the right, the side can be done in different ways. Such an incision turns into a seam, so when it is located in the front or back, your product will not consist of two, but of three or four main parts. The side slot can also be made on a simple two-seam skirt.
Step 2
The slot can be cut both on paper and directly on the fabric. If this is your first time sewing such a skirt, choose the first option. In this case, you need to duplicate the pattern of the front or back half of the skirt. It is best to transfer both patterns to graph paper or an unnecessary piece of wallpaper, as the details will be located on the fabric. Determine where you will have the right and left halves.
Step 3
To make a slit in the back, set the length of the slit up from the bottom of the right back half along the middle seam. It can be anything. If the skirt is long, make a larger cut. Mark a point. Draw a perpendicular to it to the right and set aside the width of the slots on it. Usually it is 4-6 cm, but it can be larger. Set aside the same segment for the continuation of the lower line of the skirt from the point of intersection with the middle seam. Connect both points. Draw another one parallel to this line, at a distance of 1.5-2 cm. This will be an allowance. Continue this line of centimeters 2-3 beyond the upper cut of the spline. Connect the dots to form a corner. Cut the slot on the left half of the back of the skirt without an allowance. Transfer the pattern to the fabric
Step 4
Cut 2 strips out of the duplicating material. On the left part, duplicate the entire spline. For the right one, make a narrow strip equal to the width of the allowance. Do not touch the rest of the splines. Overlock all cuts or overcast with a buttonhole by hand. Press the narrow seam allowance on the right half to the wrong side. Stitch it 1-2 mm from the fold. This operation can be dispensed with if the fabric is stiff enough and holds its shape well
Step 5
Fold the back halves right sides together. Baste and stitch the middle seam from the waistband or from the end of the fastener to the top of the spline. Without interrupting the stitching, turn the product so that the top of the slots is sewn at an angle, taking a narrow allowance on the right half. The angle is approximately equal to that at which the allowance is cut off on the right half of the skirt.
Step 6
Press the slot on the left half. Press the middle seam allowances down. If the skirt is made of thick fabric, you can make a small notch at the top of the slot. On the right side, pass a reinforcement stitch parallel to the slanting seam at the top of the spline. This small seam runs from the edge of the spline to the middle seam. The front and side splines are made in the same way.
