Okay, let's drape a skirt. I'm going to show you how to drape a very basic simple skirt. We'll start with a piece of muslin 14 by 24. From the edge of the Muslim from the salvage we're going to come in one inch and draw a length grain. And from the top of the Muslim we're going to measure two inches and put a little cross mark which will be our waistline. So the top two inches waistline and that waistline is going to measure seven inches seven inches.

And we're going to draw a cross grade perpendicular to center front. So top two inches waistline seven inches cross screen, we're going to pin center front of the Muslim onto the center front of the forum. Next, we're going to put some pins on your cross grade. Now, as you can see these forums go up and down. And the reason is that when you're draping, for example, a skirt, you want to be at eye level with the skirt so that you can see if your cross grain grain line is off or not. For example, you don't want to drape if your cross green does that you see what I'm saying.

So you won't have a cross grain that's parallel to the floor parallel to the floor straight across. So we're going to smooth the muslin, but if you smooth too tight, then it'll be the skirt will be too tight and she can't even walk. So as you're smoothing, I want you to pinch a little bit of Muslim just like a little pinch, so that you will have Have a little bit of ease. And so now, as you're doing that is my little pinch. coming across to the side seam, we're going to pin the Muslim on to the side seam. Okay, so again, here's my ease for a little comfort.

And then pins on the side seen. Okay, I'm going to get rid of the extra fabric here, Muslim Dad, I don't really need it's only going to get in the way. So I'm going to trim some of this off. Okay. And then whatever is left here will become my Dart. And we're going to place the Dart on the princess line on the princess scene.

So we're going to smooth your Muslim family With the princessy is on the waistline pillow pain and blue cross mark and there we go to take this excess fabric. I'm going to fold it to create our dark light. So going to slash from the top to the waistline so that the Muslim lays flat onto the form. keep adjusting your Muslim so it's nice and smooth. any extra fabric that's going to get in the way you can go ahead and trim away And once again with your pencil or marker, I'm going to mark the waistline mark where the two fabrics meet, just like we did in previous darts so that when you open the door that's your door. Now in the front the length of the door, the length of the door in the front is three and a half inch, three and a half inch is the length.

So just to make a little note three and a half is the length of the dirt. Okay, let's continue marking our waistline, mark your side seam Okay. And basically, that's how you drape a very simple one Dart skirt. Same thing happens for the back. The length of the back Dart is five and a half inch instead of three and a half, three and a half for the front, five and a half for the back. Sometimes you'll see a skirt where instead of one Dart, we have two darts.

So basically, you take this amount, instead of having one Dart, you split it into two darts, like this. This is a two Dart skirt. Very similar to the one Dart The only difference is that we have two darts instead of one. If I removed the pins, by they were looking at the pins Are the pins are perpendicular to the Dart whenever you're pinning darts, that's where you should pin. This Dart here, this area is called a dart intake. So if you hear people talking about the Dart intake and referring to this amount of space right here, and darts, in a skirt, or by this, the Dart intake goes towards the center front, if it's a front or center back, if it's the back so it gets folded in this direction.

So this gets folded like this, and the dot intake goes towards the center front. Alright, so we have a half inch seam allowance all around the lens, the lens really depends on how long you want the skirt. The next step is to take this drape onto paper and then make a pattern from that. I'm not going to do that that's part of your pattern making course. So That's the next class I'm going to show you how to do a circle skirt which is pretty cool.