Here’s a fast, high-end skirt that can be drafted quickly from a basic straight skirt pattern; then sewn and self-lined just as quickly from micro fiber, silk, or other light-weight fabric.
Fold the front skirt pattern on its center front. Tape to the work surface. Lay the back skirt pattern’s side seam over the front skirt pattern’s side seam. Tape. Cut a fresh piece of tracing paper slightly wider than the circumference, and double the length of the finished straight skirt. Fold the length of the tracing paper in half.
Lay the upper half of the tracing paper’s fold over the skirt’s center front fold. Trace the underlying skirt block. Mark a cross-grain across the line where the hem finishes. Remove the underlying skirt block. Turn the tracing over. Trace. Open the tracing. Fold across the finished hem line. Turn over. Trace.
Cut the skirt on the open from one piece of fabric, sandwiched between tracing paper. Use a 4-foot straight edge (available for about $6.00 at Home Depot) to chalk mark straight grain lines on the face of the fabric down the side seam, from the side front darts, and from the side back darts to 2 inches beyond the hemline.
Sew the darts. Edge-stitch the chalk lines. Sew the center back seam to the zipper notch. Set the zipper. Fold the skirt up. Line the zipper. Stay-stitch the waistline. Set the waistband.
Done!
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