45/5 Stamp Printed Summer Skirt with Button Down Front

Instructions for wide Summer Skirt with Stamp Print & Spanish Houses

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Material:

• 2,70 heavy linen (order e.g. here at Pavani)
• Textile paint in different colours. In our example we used the colours by Marabu Textil:
  • Apricot (025)
  • Peach (224)
  • Jade Green (261)
  • Sand (042)
  • Vermilion (030)
  • Pink (033)
  • Carmine Red (032)
  • Gray (078)
  • Reseda (061)
• Textile marker in black
• Brush
• Potatoes
• Velvet ribbon in the desired colour and width (in our example for a waist of 71 cm = 2,5 cm wide velvet ribbon in orange, 78 cm)
• Filler to iron onto the waistband (78 cm x 10 cm)
• 5 buttons + 1 special button for waistband

Instructions:

CUTTING & PREPARING

• Cut the fabric with a width of 2,60m + 5+5cm add-on (front seam to front seam) and the desired length (waistband to bottom seam) – in our case 77 cm
• Using our chosen material of heavy linen, the bottom seam does not have to be sewn (selvedge). If you are using a different fabric, please add 5cm for the seam in length.
• Stitch the fabric on the left and right using the zig-zag setting
• Iron over 5 cm of fabric on the left and right for the button holes
• For the inner print, print the template on 22 DIN-A4 pages. Glue the edges together and trace with an ironing pen.
• Put the template onto the fabric upside down. Place in the centre (be careful to leave the same amount of space on both sides for the edge of your stamp.)
• Consulting your trace lines, iron on the picture (usually with high temperature and without steam). You’ll colour it in later.

STAMPING

• Start stamping: you can easily choose your own pattern. The pattern for our stamps can be found with these instructions.
• Print out the stamp shapes and cut them out. Place them on half a potato and cut the edges about 5mm deep. Cut off the outer parts to reveal a raised shape.
• Choose your liquid textile colours and apply them to the top of the potato stamp using a paintbrush. Start stamping! (Plan according to our pattern on page xxx)
• When your done with the edges, let everything dry. Continue with the shapes in the centre.

PAINTING THE CENTRE MOTIF

• Trace the cityscape with a textile pen. Choose a pen that won’t bleed into your fabric – best to try it out first.
• Use black or a colour of your choice to trace all of the lines. Then add highlights with a different colour using a paintbrush (e.g. windows…)
• Let everything dry for 24 hours
• Iron the colours into the fabric to fixate them according to the instructions on the package.

THE SKIRT

• First up, lay the pleats. The calculations for your length can be found in the information box on the right.
• Draw on the pleats and fix every one with a pin before sewing them (about 1cm away from the edge)
• Continue with every pleat
• For the waistband, cut a velvet ribbon the length of your waistband (Calculation: waist width + 2 cm addition + 2 cm seam allowance + 3cm underlap).
• Cut your waistband from the skirt fabric – size of the velvet ribbon + 1,5 cm seam allowance around the edges
• Iron the inlay / filling onto the waistband (skirt fabric).
• Now sew the velvet ribbon with the shorter side (right on right) along its selvedge onto the skirt fabric that has been fixed with the filling.
• Sew the waistband onto the top edge of the skirt (left on left).
• Iron to the top and flip the velvet ribbon to the front. Invisibly stitch it onto the front by hand.
• Fold over the ribbon by the edges and invisibly sew them on by hand using small stitches.