Stories start way before you see the final outcome. This project started a year ago. I thought it would be better to help make it easy for you, by giving the patterning details first, after which I would share my completed project. That didn't happen. So finally, here you are, the Rainbow skirt inspired by a Zimmermann design I found on Far-fetch last year (2021).
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Project Details:
Pattern-My own draft. The tutorial for designing your own is in this video. The original video on developing this skirt was filmed and uploaded to my Youtube channel last year. I give the exact details on creating and calculating the tiers for your sizes and height.
For this video, I'm showing how I selected my fabric colors and designed the skirt on the Ipad, as requested by you all. 
I include, also in this video how to use your machine to gather the tiers using your sewing machine's "shirring" foot. Details on how to calculate the ratio I used are also included. For my skirt, I used a 1.5 to 1 ratio, which was a total of over 215 inches, a lot of gathering.
Fabric-
I purchased the linen fabrics from Sew Much Fabric. I was happy with the weight. It was easy to gather once the stabilizer was added to the edges. I washed all colors together, using a can of Coca-Cola to soften the fabric. Since the full skirt would be cleaned as one, I added the tide color catcher for dealing with any bleeding.
Gathered Skirt Tiers-
- Navy Blue
- Lemon Yellow
- Kiwi Lime
- Antique Pink
- Light blue (A gift from a fellow fashionista.) (Thanks, Becky.)
- Red double cloth linen
- Orange linen (Universal Fabrics Houston) I hear @sewmuchfabric now has some orange in stock)
Ric-rack Trim: Universal fabrics (Houston)
All the linens were very easy to work with. Warning: If you don't like wrinkles, a gathered linen skirt is not for you. The gathers took very nicely and sewed up relatively evenly as I had hoped. There are places where you would need to support the edges. I caution you, however, against too much stay tape. The taped edges on my skirt created much more stiffness than I wanted and caused the gathers to not take in evenly as with all the other tiers. PSA- I'll save you the eye strain. It's the green tier against the yellow. It just would not gather properly. I had lots of sliding and slipping. I suggest you gather first, then use an overlock plus lightweight fray check once you're done.
Would I make this again? Absolutely, but with other fabrics. This gave me too many sleepless nights worrying about which colors I should use against another. LOL.
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