How to Sew Your First Skirt and Understand Patterns with Shaerie Mead

Shaerie’s videos are excellent. Everything else is dreadful. Written transcripts : no one has bothered to go through the transcripts of spoken commentary, and edit the words which sound the same but don’t make sense in a sewing sentence. To get the instructions and pattern, print out the pdfs labelled 'Class Materials'. No printing maps of the instructions and pattern. No instructions about how to assemble a pdf pattern. p.3-10 : Written instructions - very confusing, the pages need to be combined into a single sheet. To get a version that makes sense : Each page has corner marks, you have to draw lines connecting them to find the trimming lines. • mark the trim line on the left and right sides of each sheet, • trim off the right side of each sheet, • lay out and assemble the sheets in these rows, match the trim lines and use transparent tape or glue : 3, 4, 5, 6 7, 8, 9, 10 • mark and trim off the top of the lower row. • combine the two rows. You now have a sheet on which the instructions read down in 4 columns. Be sure to print out the pattern pieces at 100% scale. p.11-13 : yoke pattern p.14-21 : skirt pattern, 4 pages wide, 2 pages deep, note odd layout : 17, 16, 15, 14 18, 19, 20, 21 Mark, trim, and assemble as above. If you want to make a longer skirt, you can add more paper below this. I added 12" length to make a midi skirt. So I needed 2 x 12" = 24" (2/3yd or probably easier to buy 3/4yd) more fabric. The skirt is wide enough that you will be able to walk in a maxi without adding side seam slits. Now you can relax and watch Shaerie’s excellent videos.

Shaerie’s videos are excellent. Everything else is dreadful. Written transcripts : no one has bothered to go through the transcripts of spoken commentary, and edit the words which sound the same but don’t make sense in a sewing sentence./ To get the instructions and pattern, print out the pdfs labelled 'Class Materials'. No maps of the instructions and pattern. No instructions about how to assemble a pdf pattern. / p.3-10 : Written instructions - very confusing, the pages need to be combined into a single sheet. To get a version that makes sense : Each page has corner marks, you have to draw lines connecting them to find the trimming lines. - mark the trim line on the left and right sides of each sheet, - trim off the right side of each sheet, - lay out and assemble the sheets in these rows, match the trim lines and use transparent tape or paper glue : 3, 4, 5, 6/ 7, 8, 9, 10. - mark and trim off the top of the lower row. - combine the two rows. You now have a sheet on which the instructions read down in 4 columns./ Be sure to print out the pattern pieces at 100% scale. p.11-13 : yoke pattern. p.14-21 : skirt pattern, 4 pages wide, 2 pages deep, note odd layout : 17, 16, 15, 14/ 18, 19, 20, 21. Mark, trim, and assemble as above./ If you want to make a longer skirt, you can add more paper below this. I added 12" length to make a midi skirt. So I needed 2 x 12" = 24" (2/3yd or probably easier to buy 3/4yd) more fabric. The skirt is wide enough that you will be able to walk in a maxi without adding side seam slits./ Now you can relax and watch Shaerie’s excellent videos.

Wondering if there's any way to still get this pattern. Thanks!

The course was as clean and precise as her sewing. I haven't sewn for some time, but the techniques Shaerie taught will serve me well. Thanks~

Shaerie is an exceptionally clear and focused teacher. She points out essential steps for beginner sewers and doesn't get caught up with extraneous details.