How to Make a Saber Lily costume

Step 4 Sewing the Skirt

1. For the white and gray skirts, I made circle skirts.  Figure out how long you want to make the white skirt.  For Saber Lily, it ends at about the knee.  Then, figure out the radius of your waist size, (for example if your waist is 28", divide by 2pi to get about 4.5" for the radius.)  Add the waist radius to the length of the skirt to get the total radius of the circle skirt.

2.  Take a large square of fabric with the length on both sides at least double the total radius.  Fold it in half, then half again.  Take a piece of string the length of the total radius and tie it around a pen.  Put the end of the string without the pen onto the corner of the fabric that is the center of the fabric.  Put the end with the pen stretched to it's limit to draw the arc on the fabric.  Now you have a quarter circle.

3.  Repeat the above except with the waist radius.  Now you have two quarter circles, on smaller than the other.

4.  Cut on the line while keeping your fabric folded so in the end you will have a donut shaped piece of fabric.

5.  Use a serger to do the rolled hem stitch on the bottom of the skirt.  For the top of the skirt I used the overlock stitch.

6.  Repeat the above steps with the gray fabric, which has a shorter length than the white fabric.

7.  Sew the tops of the two skirts together with the gray one on top.