Every Girl Loves a Skirt

     Alright, let's get started on our skirt. We made the apron, now we need to accompany that with a beautiful skirt made out of a bed sheet.

Yep, that's what I said, a bed sheet. I'm pretty fond of them because it's essentially FREE material.

List of Materials:

1. King Size Bed Sheet
2. Sewing Machine
3. Iron and Ironing Board
4. 1/4" Elastic Band 
5. Safety Pins (optional)
6. Pins (optional)
7. Serger (optional 

Take Note:

I will be using a King sized bed sheet. You could actually get 3 skirts out this one sheet. I will also be using a Serger to do some fancy seems. This is just for aesthetics, a regular sewing machine will be just be fine. 
 Measuring the Skirt
 Here is a nifty chart.

• Fold your sheet in half, long ways or hotdog style.  
• Measure the length you want the skirt to be from your hips/waist to your ankles and                add 3 inches then cut.
• Use the fat hem at the top of the sheet as the bottom of your skirt. Mine has a pretty design on it.
  
  Sewing the Skirt

See how pretty sides are touching?

• Then sew along the open edge of your skirt. Make sure the pretty sides are touching. By the end it should look like a tube. 
• EXTRA STEP: If you left enough seem allowance, you can serge along your stitches.  This is entirely optional.

This is what my hem looks like.

Ironing the Waistband 

 Fold down the top of the skirt about 1/4 inch to 1/2 inch and then Iron it flat.

I don't know why this picture is sideways

Still, sorry about the sideways picture.

 Fold it down again, this time a little wider, maybe 2 inches.

This is why we added 3 inches to the length of the skirt in the beginning.

This is what it should look like when you've done all the ironing.

 Sewing the Waistband
     I like to start sewing close to the side hem.  You're going to leave a gap between your starting point and end point as you sew along the top of your skirt. It will create a small opening where you will slide your Elastic.

This is the gap you will slide your Elastic through.

 Next, attaching a safety pin to one end of your Elastic, slide it through the waistband.

Notice, I am not using a safety pin to help pull the Elastic through my loop. This is because I do not own safety pins, I used a paper clip and tape.

This is what it looks like when you get the Elastic threaded through the waistband.

 Now you will need to sew the Elastic together.

 As a finishing touch you can finish sewing up the gap you left for the Elastic. I didn't though, in case I'm giving this skirt to someone who is *cough* *cough* skinnier then me, that way there will be an easy opening to take the elastic out and adjust it.

 How to Measure the Elastic

Hold your a length of elastic around the part of your torso where you want the skirt to sit. Pull it quite snugly. Over lap just a bit so you will have something to sew together, then cut.

This should be an earlier step, but I figger you guys are smart. You can measure an Elastic band.

The Finished Product

Not too shabby.

Here is with the Apron I made.

Hope this helps you. If you are looking for something a little different, I found a great skirt tutorial at Show Tell Share blog. In that blog, the dress is also made from a sheet, but is also a lot prettier than mine.