Six and Eight Gore Skirt
Blue Eight Gore Skirt
Nancy wrote: These are the settings I used for my blue skirt. I randomly embroidered the design onto the fabric.
Number of Gores: 8 Gore
Hemline Sweep: Flared
Skirt Length: Knee
Finished Length: 24
Waistband Width: 0.5
Hemline Flare: 8
Flare Depth: 10
Six Gore Skirt
Nancy did this 6 gore skirt.
Number of Gores: 6 Gore
Hemline Sweep: Flared
Skirt Length: Knee
Finished Length: 26
Waistband Width: 0.5
Hemline Flare: 8
Flare Depth: 2
Olwyn Mary wrote:
My favorite 6-gore skirt, which was a classic when I was growing up in England and which I have several times sliced and diced a paper pattern to make over here, is:
Waistband. zipper in side seam. smooth line over hips. Straight down from there to hem, no flare. Inverted (box) pleat in each of the two front and two back gores, starting 12" below the waist.
Wild Ginger says: This is easy to do in Pattern Editor.
Use Locate Point to Mark down the skirt to the pleat level.
For a box pleat you will want to double the pleat return amount. For a pleat with a 3 inch return you would draft a 6 inch pleat extension.
This example show a pleat that will have a seam down the center of the box pleat.
Gore Skirt with Box Pleat
Gored Skirt with Godet
Cindy wrote:
I made a 6 gore skirt out of green tencel and I put small godets in to give it a little flare and as a design detail. I will take a picture but here is the pattern. I get many compliments on this skirt. It is knee length.
Two Layer Flared Skirt
Katrina wrote:
This is a copy of a skirt pattern that I saw and liked.
Since i am not that good in PE, i made a few changes to my pattern on paper.
but for the most part, in Child's Play, I drafted a 6 gore, yoked skirt with full elastic with the highest amount of flare. Once I printed out my pieces, I duplicated one panel, scalloped the hem line, and decreased by 2 inches, approx. in the middle and re-drafted, which then became my over-skirt.
I cut 6 of the over skirt and 6 of the original (under-skirt) pattern, sewed them together, attached the yoke, added waistband elastic, using a fold-over type technique, top stitched the whole garment and finished the hem with ruffles and bias tape.
Wild Ginger says:
To creat in Pattern Editor draft your skirt. Because the gores are the same you only need two. For the under skirt, remove the hem and draft with a seam allowance for seing on the ruffle.
For the over skirt, mark the side edge of the gore using Locate Point. Use Locate Mid-Point to divide the hem in half. Dart a line up to mark the bottom point of the top layer. Use Arc to draw the new edge. Remove lines not needed.
Two Layer Gore Skirt
Kim wrote:
Eight Gore Flippy Skirt
I have an 8-gore I did in Celebrations. 25"long, Flare = 8, Flare depth - 16". I adjusted the position of the waist darts to obtain equal-width gores.