{"id":25,"date":"2014-10-30T15:32:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T20:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=25"},"modified":"2014-12-09T22:00:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T03:00:56","slug":"rainbow-skirt-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Rainbow Skirt – Pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"

My mom sent me a picture of a fantastic pieced skirt:<\/p>\n

\"RainbowCircleSkirt\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It is similar to a pieced chevron skirt that we had seen on Project Run & Play (http:\/\/alittlegray.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/pr-week-1-piece-by-piece-chevron-skirt.html<\/span>) — but the sections are parallel to the seam instead of creating the chevron pattern. I saved the original chevron too — it is another skirt I would like to make for Anya.<\/p>\n

I’m trying to figure out if it is feasible to make something like this for Anya. How much fabric would be needed?<\/p>\n

I want to use\u00a0a 3.5″ radius for the waist (~22″ waist so there’s some gather at the\u00a0waist and\u00a0it can grow with her) and five color spectrum divisions. Which means each section is made\u00a0at 72 degrees.<\/p>\n

\"CircleSkirtMeasurements\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then I need to figure out how large of a rectangle of fabric is going to be needed to cut these arcs.<\/p>\n

\"CircleSkirtCutSheet\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So the largest arc requires fabric 8″ high (well, a little more for the seam allowance) and 16″ wide (again plus a little for the seam allowance). So an 40″x18″ half yard is plenty of fabric – even enough for two skirts so I can send fabric along to my mom. We can both have a 20″x18″ rectangle. Now I just need to\u00a0find\u00a0a fabric with fifteen shades that I like — a reasonably priced fabric.<\/p>\n

You know, when I learnt to use AutoCAD, I never expected that it would be my tool of choice when creating patterns for my kid’s clothes … but the polar array made it so easy to section the circles!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My mom sent me a picture of a fantastic pieced skirt: It is similar to a pieced chevron skirt that we had seen on Project Run & Play (http:\/\/alittlegray.blogspot.com\/2012\/04\/pr-week-1-piece-by-piece-chevron-skirt.html) — but the sections are parallel to the seam instead of creating the chevron pattern. I saved the original chevron too — it is another skirt …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10,4,8],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing","tag-drafting","tag-sewing-2","tag-wip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/74"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}