 Hi what's up you guys this is your girl so with Whitbert and welcome back again to my YouTube channel. So today we are going to learn how to make the half circle tiered skirt. In this tutorial I am going to demonstrate you guys the pattern making and the sewing technique for the half circle tiered skirt. By the way I have a separate tutorial for circle skirts and I will put the link here. Anyway till then the pattern making and the sewing for this tutorial make it sure to continue on watching the whole video to see the full creative process. Here are the tools and the materials that I'll be using for this tutorial. Dressform. By the way I will be using my half scale dressform for this demonstration and also for the calculations but you can also apply it on your own measurements. Pencil, lots and lots of pins, pattern papers, fashion rulers, measuring tape, fabric and paper scissors, fabric. I am using this wonderful green gauze and of course my trusty sewing machine. First let's get the full waist measurement of our dressforms or if you are making this skirt for yourself get the measurement of the smallest part of your waist and record it. Next we will use the half circle skirt formula. For example the full waist measurement of my dressform is 13 for 8 inches or 34 centimeters. I am going to multiply the waist measurement by 2 equals to 27 inches or 68.5 centimeters and I will divide this measurement by 6.28 equals to 4 to 8 inches or 11 centimeters and this will be the regions measurement that I will use for my half circle skirt. Disclaimer the measurements that I am using here is from my half scale dressform. Please use your own measurements. For the length of my half circle skirt I'll be using 5 inches or 12.7 centimeters and for the lower skirt I will be using 7 inches or 17.7 centimeters. Remember guys to use your own measurements for your skirt. Don't be afraid to experiment with different lengths. So after our calculations we can now move on to the next step. If you guys can see at the other side of my patterned paper I left 4.8 of an inch or 1.27 centimeters space here for my sewing allowance and let's leave it like this while we draft the half circle skirt. Like every other circle skirt we are going to draft the regions from the tip of our paper. First mark down your ranges measurement making a curved cone shape like this one. I am using the ranges measurement from the waist of my dressform which is 4 to 8 inches or 11 centimeters. Again use your own measurements for this one. Next from the regions mark down the skirt length. The skirt length for my half circle skirt is 5 inches or 12.7 centimeters. Label the side without sewing allowance on a fold. By the way I am also going to put sewing allowance at the hem of my half circle skirt and at the waist or the ranges in about 4.8 of an inch or 1.27 centimeters. Next I will cut out the pattern from my paper and there you go now we have a half circle skirt pattern. Let's now move on to the next step. To draft the tier or the lower skirt let's get the hem measurement of our half circle skirt. Simply use your measuring tape and get the measurement of the hem like this one. Bind you that with different lengths the measurement of the hem circumference changes so I suggest you do this procedure on your own half circle skirt so that you'll get your exact measurement. What I am doing here is only a demonstration. The measurement that I'll get from my skirt is different from yours so remember get your measurements. Once you got your hem measurement don't forget to record it. The measurement that I got is 14 5 8 inches or 37 centimeters. Since we got the measurement on our unfold pattern we will multiply this measurement by 2. So the whole hem circumference measurement is 29 to 8 inches or 74 centimeters. Again my measurement is different from yours. And by the way I will multiply this measurement by 3 or 4 and that's according to your preference. Use times 4 if you want an exaggerated gathering. Use times 3 if you want a simple yet beautiful gathering. For me I prefer to use times 3. So next I will multiply my hem circumference measurement by 3 so that's 29 to 8 inches or 74 centimeters times 3 equals to 87 6 8 inches or 223 centimeters. Oh my god those are a lot of numbers. Please bear with the math I know it's overwhelming but it's part of the pattern drafting. Rewind or pause if you must to understand the formula. For the lower skirt I didn't make a pattern since it's a waste of paper so what we will do next is do it on the actual fabric since it will be easy that way. Now let's move on to the next step. Since we are using a half circle skirt we have to cut the pattern on fold. First let's fold our fabric lengthwise salvage to salvage like this one. Next place your pattern on the bias on the fold of the fabric. Pin everything in place and cut out the extra fabric from the hem and from the reaches. And there you go now we have a half circle skirt. Now let's move on to the lower part of the skirt. To understand the lower skirt pattern very quickly here is an illustration that I made and don't forget to pause the video to copy this. For the lower part of the skirt we will cut on the crosswise part of the fabric since it is wide. The reason why the lower skirt is wide because we want to achieve full gathering effect. Using your tailor's chalk draw a vertical line like this one. Next from the edge of our fabric mark down the skirt length plus 1 4 8 inches or 3.8 centimeters for the facing of the skirt. Mind you this will be a long process so patience is a must. Using my tape measure from the vertical line that I made earlier I will mark in the width of the lower skirt which is 87 6 8 inches or 223 centimeters plus 1 inch or 2.5 centimeters for the sewing allowances. So if you guys can see here unfortunately my tape measure is only 6 inches wide. It didn't cover it all. So from here on this mark I will continue marking in the rest of my weave measurement. And from the weave mark draw another vertical line parallel from the first one. And now I am just going to cut out the lower skirt from the fabric. And there you go now we have the half circle skirt and the tier or the lower skirt. Now let's move on to the sewing part. As you can see first I surge all of the sewing allowances of the half circle skirt and the lower skirt. And next I am going to fold the 1 inch or 2.5 centimeters facing of the hem of my lower skirt. And I will give this a slight press. Next I will top stitch the facing by 6 8 of an inch. So if you guys can see I already gathered the lower skirt. My phone didn't capture the footage but it's easy to do this especially if you have a gathering footer. Next after gathering I will pin the lower skirt to my half circle skirt like this one. Next I will sew the seams by 4 8 of an inch or 1.27 centimeters. And there you go now we can see the results. And next I will attach a bodice to see how this will look like on my dress form. Here's my finished half circle tiered skirt. I love it and I love how it turned out. The half circle tiered skirt is awesome for petticoats and summer or picnic skirts. If you guys remember the pink dress from Kara Bradshaw on Sex and the City, the Oscar de la Renta pink dress it reminds me so much of this one. By the way guys you can also use this technique to create more tears if you want a longer skirt or use it on your bodice to make a fantastic summer dress. You can also use a full circle skirt if you want to. I am really satisfied with the muck up of this skirt and I hope you guys are too with your own creations. And if you guys have noticed I use a half skill dress form for my demonstration today. This is a good way for me to lessen waste from my fabrics and to lessen my expenses when buying fabrics. For me it's really practical but I really do hope you guys can catch up with this tutorial and the upcoming ones since I will be using the half skill dress form more often. Anyway you guys I hope this tutorial gave you enough tips on how to make patterns and how to sew the half circle teared skirt. I also hope this tutorial can help you with your upcoming sewing projects or to create a garment for yourself and I promise I will create more tutorials on how to create different garments. If you are not subscribed to my YouTube channel Sewit with Britt make sure to hit that subscribe button to be notified with my new tutorials and if you like this video please give it a huge thumbs up to help me with the YouTube algorithm. Also comment down below your thoughts suggestions and questions about this tutorial and I will respond as fast as I can. And I will see you guys again on the next tutorial. Ampiento!