How to make a bias cut skirt with wide stretch waistband

Step 7 Cut the skirt

Lay your fabric strip pattern perpendicular to the cut made in the previous step. The next step is to cut out the a-line skirt in a shape like that shown in the second picture, you can cut this out as shown, although I have found it much easier to get a symetrical shape by folding the skirt piece down the middle so that edge a (as showm in picture 2) lines up with edge b.

Comments

[digrat]

Is there a rule of thumb as to how wide the bottom of the skirt should be in proportion to the top?

[sajbrfem]

It really depends on the fabric you are using and the effect that you want, the greater the difference between the top and the bottom the fuller and waifier the skirt looks, and if you have less of a difference the skirt ends up looking more like a straight skirt with a bit of a fish tail flair at the bottom. If you wanted to you could go all the way out to the edge of the fabric for a really full skirt.