This beautifully elegant style dressmakers skirt is an advanced upholstery skill. Good sewing skills, understanding how to approach a t-deck, and being able to understand fabric behavior are all skills you’ll need for this tutorial. Once you’ve got those skills down a dressmakers skirt can be used on sofas, ottomans and many chair styles.
Overview
In this advanced upholstery tutorial on a dressmakers skirt you will learn the following steps:
- How to measure your dressmakers skirt pieces
- How to sew a mitered the underneath deck portion
- How to sew miters for your deck skirt components
- How to sew the multiple skirt pieces together
- Attach the front deck of the dressmakers’ skirt pieces
- Attach the outside arm skirt pieces
- Close up and attach the outside back pieces
- How to close up the chair under the dressmakers’ skirt pieces
This tutorial is broken down into parts so you can easily find the section you want. With a membership, you can view this video as many times and as often as you’d like.
- Intro
- Part 1 Measuring front Skirt And Deck
- Part 2 Sewing deck Components
- Part 3 Assembling Front Deck And Skirt Pieces
- Part 4 Attaching The Completed Deck To the Chair
- Part 5 Sewing The Outside Arms And Back
- Part 6 Attaching the Outside Arms And Back
Total Run Time: 202 minutes
Supplies List
- Face Fabric
- Lining
- Deck Fabric
- 69 bonded nylon thread to match your fabric
- Metal tack strip
- Cardboard tack strip
Tools
- Fabric Scissors
- Hand sewing needle
- Cloth Tape measure
- Straight edge
- Long metal ruler
- Sewing Machine
- Number 18 machine needles
- Pneumatic staple gun
- Air compressor
