This video has been a life saver, as a broke cosplayer I make almost all my stuff👾. I am nervous to try and make a petticoat and having some very hard debating on what type of fabric to use. I am going to make a petticoat for my Madoka Kaname cosplay. I really hope it turns out right!🍭
two tips that saved my life. One Get a bodkin!! I wish we could share photos here but its so much easier to get the elastic through with a bodkin. safety pins used to hurt my hands so bad and would often bend and stab me when they accidentally openned lol. You can also ruffle with your serger and it goes so fast!! the day I learnt to ruffle with my (Borrowed) serger I wanted to cry from happiness. I just picked up a new serger yesterday and about to get started on a petticoat for myself
Late to the game but anyone wants to do gathers, something I learnt from historic sewing is two rows of running stitches...you can do them at the same time with two needles (or separately but that'll take longer) It makes them so much easier to control, before I knew this I HATED trying to gather things! It's super cute
I did this and it tureen out great! And by that I mean I held various towels around my waist and listened to Kyary Pamyu Pamyu while crying on the inside looking at petticoats on cosplay shops :’)
Thank you SO MUCH for this guide! This was my third time trying to make a petticoat, so I 100% knew what I was getting into, but this time I'm happy with the results! Thank you for doing the maths. I had thrifted some very nice ikea curtains some time ago for making a petticoat, and I'm glad I get to finally wear them 😂
@@TheStitchess i'm currently trying to make one under a budget, and honestly it's the worst thing 😭😭😭 i have to take out all my gathering bcs the machine messed up,,,,
Thank you for the tutorial! I opted to use a thin lace like curtain from the thrift shop. I had never seen the two different layers like that! I've sewn a lot but am new to cosplay sewing and am too poor to go out and buy the tulle and other materials I've seen in other videos
I’ve made a petticoat from thrift store curtains before! The thin sheer ones work surprisingly well and you can often get them on the 99 cent tag sale since no one ever seems to buy them lol
I use sheets from the thrift store for fabric too :) but tulle is actually very inexpensive, you can get it for 99 cents a yard at walmart, or buy rolls of it for very cheap
If you have questions about sewing a petticoat I would be happy to help so you can understand better I have made 5 already so I feel I understand them alright
@@chanytell yeah I'm more of a visual learner. I understand you need to measure, make the strips, and connect but when I go to do it I fail and then I get really confused 🤣🤣😭
I recommend you watch some of the Stitchess other sewing tutorials and the video about the sewing books. You get the hang of things by watching her make stuff repeatedly and you start to understand the terms used.
The math was incomprehensible. I was excited for this project but that was impossible to follow. You started backwards and offered no explanations that explained why you were doing what you were doing
Hi, I know this is an old comment but I wanted to offer another way of explaining the math (as best I understand it, maybe others can jump in and help if I’m off) since it might also help others. Basically, she had to figure out how to divide a 144” (4 yards, 36”x4) x 60” piece of fabric into the pieces she needed to construct her petticoat. The amount of fabric she had and its dimensions were finite; for people following the video as a tutorial, we can determine the amount of fabric we need first, and then buy fabric. Our fabric may not be 60” wide, it may be 55” or something else, so we’ll have to adjust accordingly. She had to figure out how to cut her fabric into lots of rectangles. How did she determine the dimensions of the rectangles? 1️⃣ For the long side of the rectangles: She says she’s doing a 4x-gathered skirt. So since her waist measurement is 32”, she would need about 128” (32” x 4) of fabric to achieve this. Remember, her amount of fabric is finite and she can’t change the dimensions, so she’s working with what she has. She decides that because the width of the fabric (60”) is about 2x her waist measurement (32”), that’s close enough (60”x2 (120”) is close enough to 32”x4 (128”)) and she decides to use 2 pieces of fabric with length of 60” for a total length of 120”, which she can then gather to make a roughly 4x-gathered skirt. So all of the pieces she’s cutting to make the tiers will have a long side of 60”, like she’s cutting “slices” of fabric off of the long 144” x 60” piece in her drawing. For people making this on their own, you’ll need to look at your own waist measurement and the width of your fabric and decide how this will look for you. Let’s say, for example, your waist is 36” and your fabric width is 55”. To make a 4x-gathered skirt, you need 144” (36”x4) of fabric; 55” x 2 is 110”, so you’d need more than 2 pieces to get closer to 144”. 2.5 pieces would get you to 137.5”, which I’d probably call close enough, so for one top tier of a skirt to go around your waist and be gathered, you’d need to cut 3 “slices” of your fabric, and then cut one in half, to have a piece of 2.5 x 55”. 2️⃣ Now that she determined all of her rectangles would have a long side of 60”, how did she figure out the width of the rectangles, or the length of the tiers for each skirt layer? First, she decided to make an 18” long petticoat (she didn’t explain why she chose this length, maybe she ran the numbers a few times and this what what worked best- again, her fabric amount was finite), and it would have two skirt layers. She wanted the layers to have different numbers of tiers so they would be poofier (give more volume). She determined that the inner-layer skirt would have two tiers, so each tier would be 9” (18” (total skirt length)/ 2 = 9”). The outer-layer skirt would have three tiers, so each tier would be 6” (18” / 3 = 6”). So all of her rectangles that she’d cut from her fabric would have a width of either 9” or 6”. 3️⃣ Now, how many pieces of each width does she need? Since she’s gathering the skirt, each tier down from the waist will be made of more fabric. The top edge of the top tier will be gathered from 120” to 32”, but the bottom edge will still be 120”. She says she wants a 2x-gather from one tier to the next, so she would need 120” x 2 for the top of the next tier, or 4 pieces of the 60” fabric, totaling 240”. For the 3-tier layer of the skirt, she’ll need one more tier, so she’d need 8 pieces of 60” fabric, to get 480” total (240” x 2) for the final bottom tier. Here are the total pieces she needs: Inner-layer skirt (2 tiers): (1 piece is 9”x60”) Top tier: 2 pieces Bottom tier: 4 pieces 6 pieces total Outer-layer skirt (3 tiers): (1 piece is 6”x60”) Top tier: 2 pieces Middle tier: 4 pieces Bottom tier: 8 pieces 14 pieces total Again, if we think of it like she’s cutting 9” and 6” slices off of her 144” piece of fabric, she’ll be cutting six 9” slices (54” total) and then fourteen 6” slices (84” total). All together, that’s 138”, which is less than 144”, so she has enough fabric. 🎉 So she cut her 144” x 60” piece of fabric into six 9”x60” rectangles, and fourteen 6”x60” rectangles and used these to make the tiers of the inner and outer skirt layers, respectively. If we continue the example from before where we needed 2.5 pieces at 55” in length for the top tiers of our skirt layers, and use the same 9” and 6” lengths for our petticoat tiers, the totals would look like this: Inner layer skirt (2 tiers): (1 piece is 9”x55”) Top tier: 2.5 pieces Bottom tier: 5 pieces 7.5 rounding to ➡️ 8 pieces total Outer-layer skirt (3 tiers): (1 piece is 6”x55”) Top tier: 2.5 pieces Middle tier: 5 pieces Bottom tier: 10 pieces 17.5 rounding to ➡️ 18 pieces total Like before, let’s calculate: 8 pieces x 9” = 72” and 18 pieces x 6” = 108”, so we need 180” total, which is 5 yards of fabric exactly, so you’d probably want a bit more for seam allowances, etc. A big thing to note is that she doesn’t seem to specify what she’s using for seam allowance, so please take that into consideration when doing your own math. When you’re making your own petticoat, you can decide if you want it longer or shorter than what she did here, so your pieces may not be 9” and 6” wide. 18” is a nice number, though, since it divides evenly by both 2 and 3. I hope that was helpful and made sense. 🙏
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I made myself 2 petticoats, one a-line and one bellshaped, I'm never doing it again lol 😂. Good job on yours it's really cute and poofy
I think I’ve made four altogether? That’s enough lol 😂
the ¨im never doing that again¨ killed me 😂
is that... Bernadette on your phone? immediate respect. wait, and the Alice academy theme song?!?!?!?! *you have wonderful taste*
This video has been a life saver, as a broke cosplayer I make almost all my stuff👾. I am nervous to try and make a petticoat and having some very hard debating on what type of fabric to use. I am going to make a petticoat for my Madoka Kaname cosplay. I really hope it turns out right!🍭
good luck!! 🥰💖🧚♀️✨✨
Its been a year, how did it turn out?
@@x-kat-xd6295 we'll never know
two tips that saved my life. One Get a bodkin!! I wish we could share photos here but its so much easier to get the elastic through with a bodkin. safety pins used to hurt my hands so bad and would often bend and stab me when they accidentally openned lol. You can also ruffle with your serger and it goes so fast!! the day I learnt to ruffle with my (Borrowed) serger I wanted to cry from happiness. I just picked up a new serger yesterday and about to get started on a petticoat for myself
this is a life saver. i have a tulle petticoat and it’s hard to wear bc it makes my sensory issues go into overdrive. thank you!
Late to the game but anyone wants to do gathers, something I learnt from historic sewing is two rows of running stitches...you can do them at the same time with two needles (or separately but that'll take longer) It makes them so much easier to control, before I knew this I HATED trying to gather things! It's super cute
cheers to that bit about hand gathering- i dont trust machine thread to hold while Im working with gathered material
I did this and it tureen out great! And by that I mean I held various towels around my waist and listened to Kyary Pamyu Pamyu while crying on the inside looking at petticoats on cosplay shops :’)
Thank you SO MUCH for this guide! This was my third time trying to make a petticoat, so I 100% knew what I was getting into, but this time I'm happy with the results! Thank you for doing the maths.
I had thrifted some very nice ikea curtains some time ago for making a petticoat, and I'm glad I get to finally wear them 😂
It turned out so cool! I feel like making a petticoat would definitely be a challenge so props to you for making such a beautiful one! 💖
They honestly aren’t hard, they’re just...very labor intensive and usually make me cry so I avoid making them as much as possible lol
@@TheStitchess Do you know how to make this kind of skirt? georgeshobeika.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/G.Hobeika_HC_FW15-16_08-318x477.jpg
@@TheStitchess i'm currently trying to make one under a budget, and honestly it's the worst thing 😭😭😭 i have to take out all my gathering bcs the machine messed up,,,,
it turned out amazing, love how you made a pink petticoat :3 it was a long process but it turned out great~
Pink chiffon is the same price as white so might as well lol
3:02 I call those little serger scraps my fabric spaghetti. They're fun lol
Thank you for the tutorial! I opted to use a thin lace like curtain from the thrift shop. I had never seen the two different layers like that! I've sewn a lot but am new to cosplay sewing and am too poor to go out and buy the tulle and other materials I've seen in other videos
I’ve made a petticoat from thrift store curtains before! The thin sheer ones work surprisingly well and you can often get them on the 99 cent tag sale since no one ever seems to buy them lol
Making stuff from thrifted items is great! No shame in making fashion(Or cosplay) on a budget!
I use sheets from the thrift store for fabric too :) but tulle is actually very inexpensive, you can get it for 99 cents a yard at walmart, or buy rolls of it for very cheap
I was just looking for something like this, now I can have a full rainbow of petticoats
Or just get the fabric and figure it out if you dont want to do math
Or you can do that XD
One item with 2 word would help this process go more smoothly & quickly.......Gathering Foot. It saves hands, minds, & lives.
Simple math... I just failed two math tests an hour ago 😭😂😂
my mom made me a petticoat one time 😌🥰💖🌸she’s dead now so i gotta make my own 👿🤬🤬🙄
This made me laugh, I'm sorry for laughing.
This tutorial and your bloomer one is saving me the hassle with my Konpaku Youmu cosplay thank you..
Thank you so much for explaining the math!
Love your video very inspiring. I can handle all those numbers. I think i'm going to do it free hand. Just so see what i can come up with first.
It's not like I don't understand but I don't have a machine yet so that amount of fabric...XD
I'm making my girlfriend wear this for Halloween and be my puppet on a string! Hahahaha!
Thank you so much! This was a great tutorial and exactly the type of petticoat I was looking to make, haha
I wanna cry. What tension did she use ?? I did everything correctly and my tier after gathered didn’t fit when I was sewing them together :(
Hermoso❤️
loved your video! I'll try to make one when I can
Thank you! Vary informative!
I JUST WANNA MAKE A PETTICOAT BUT NONE OF THE TUTORIALS ARE MAKING SENSE I GIVE UP. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
If you have questions about sewing a petticoat I would be happy to help so you can understand better I have made 5 already so I feel I understand them alright
@@chanytell yeah I'm more of a visual learner. I understand you need to measure, make the strips, and connect but when I go to do it I fail and then I get really confused 🤣🤣😭
Do you have any written instructions, i feel so lost, maybe ill figure it out
I recommend you watch some of the Stitchess other sewing tutorials and the video about the sewing books. You get the hang of things by watching her make stuff repeatedly and you start to understand the terms used.
What fabric did you use???
Buy yourself a better pen !
The math was incomprehensible. I was excited for this project but that was impossible to follow. You started backwards and offered no explanations that explained why you were doing what you were doing
Hi, I know this is an old comment but I wanted to offer another way of explaining the math (as best I understand it, maybe others can jump in and help if I’m off) since it might also help others.
Basically, she had to figure out how to divide a 144” (4 yards, 36”x4) x 60” piece of fabric into the pieces she needed to construct her petticoat. The amount of fabric she had and its dimensions were finite; for people following the video as a tutorial, we can determine the amount of fabric we need first, and then buy fabric. Our fabric may not be 60” wide, it may be 55” or something else, so we’ll have to adjust accordingly.
She had to figure out how to cut her fabric into lots of rectangles. How did she determine the dimensions of the rectangles?
1️⃣ For the long side of the rectangles:
She says she’s doing a 4x-gathered skirt. So since her waist measurement is 32”, she would need about 128” (32” x 4) of fabric to achieve this. Remember, her amount of fabric is finite and she can’t change the dimensions, so she’s working with what she has. She decides that because the width of the fabric (60”) is about 2x her waist measurement (32”), that’s close enough (60”x2 (120”) is close enough to 32”x4 (128”)) and she decides to use 2 pieces of fabric with length of 60” for a total length of 120”, which she can then gather to make a roughly 4x-gathered skirt. So all of the pieces she’s cutting to make the tiers will have a long side of 60”, like she’s cutting “slices” of fabric off of the long 144” x 60” piece in her drawing.
For people making this on their own, you’ll need to look at your own waist measurement and the width of your fabric and decide how this will look for you. Let’s say, for example, your waist is 36” and your fabric width is 55”. To make a 4x-gathered skirt, you need 144” (36”x4) of fabric; 55” x 2 is 110”, so you’d need more than 2 pieces to get closer to 144”. 2.5 pieces would get you to 137.5”, which I’d probably call close enough, so for one top tier of a skirt to go around your waist and be gathered, you’d need to cut 3 “slices” of your fabric, and then cut one in half, to have a piece of 2.5 x 55”.
2️⃣ Now that she determined all of her rectangles would have a long side of 60”, how did she figure out the width of the rectangles, or the length of the tiers for each skirt layer?
First, she decided to make an 18” long petticoat (she didn’t explain why she chose this length, maybe she ran the numbers a few times and this what what worked best- again, her fabric amount was finite), and it would have two skirt layers. She wanted the layers to have different numbers of tiers so they would be poofier (give more volume). She determined that the inner-layer skirt would have two tiers, so each tier would be 9” (18” (total skirt length)/ 2 = 9”). The outer-layer skirt would have three tiers, so each tier would be 6” (18” / 3 = 6”). So all of her rectangles that she’d cut from her fabric would have a width of either 9” or 6”.
3️⃣ Now, how many pieces of each width does she need?
Since she’s gathering the skirt, each tier down from the waist will be made of more fabric. The top edge of the top tier will be gathered from 120” to 32”, but the bottom edge will still be 120”. She says she wants a 2x-gather from one tier to the next, so she would need 120” x 2 for the top of the next tier, or 4 pieces of the 60” fabric, totaling 240”. For the 3-tier layer of the skirt, she’ll need one more tier, so she’d need 8 pieces of 60” fabric, to get 480” total (240” x 2) for the final bottom tier.
Here are the total pieces she needs:
Inner-layer skirt (2 tiers): (1 piece is 9”x60”)
Top tier: 2 pieces
Bottom tier: 4 pieces
6 pieces total
Outer-layer skirt (3 tiers): (1 piece is 6”x60”)
Top tier: 2 pieces
Middle tier: 4 pieces
Bottom tier: 8 pieces
14 pieces total
Again, if we think of it like she’s cutting 9” and 6” slices off of her 144” piece of fabric, she’ll be cutting six 9” slices (54” total) and then fourteen 6” slices (84” total). All together, that’s 138”, which is less than 144”, so she has enough fabric. 🎉 So she cut her 144” x 60” piece of fabric into six 9”x60” rectangles, and fourteen 6”x60” rectangles and used these to make the tiers of the inner and outer skirt layers, respectively.
If we continue the example from before where we needed 2.5 pieces at 55” in length for the top tiers of our skirt layers, and use the same 9” and 6” lengths for our petticoat tiers, the totals would look like this:
Inner layer skirt (2 tiers): (1 piece is 9”x55”)
Top tier: 2.5 pieces
Bottom tier: 5 pieces
7.5 rounding to ➡️ 8 pieces total
Outer-layer skirt (3 tiers): (1 piece is 6”x55”)
Top tier: 2.5 pieces
Middle tier: 5 pieces
Bottom tier: 10 pieces
17.5 rounding to ➡️ 18 pieces total
Like before, let’s calculate: 8 pieces x 9” = 72” and 18 pieces x 6” = 108”, so we need 180” total, which is 5 yards of fabric exactly, so you’d probably want a bit more for seam allowances, etc. A big thing to note is that she doesn’t seem to specify what she’s using for seam allowance, so please take that into consideration when doing your own math.
When you’re making your own petticoat, you can decide if you want it longer or shorter than what she did here, so your pieces may not be 9” and 6” wide. 18” is a nice number, though, since it divides evenly by both 2 and 3.
I hope that was helpful and made sense. 🙏
@@cvgsunset5844this was insanely helpful omg I'm so glad I looked at your reply