DIY Peplum Skirt
This is a peplum skirt that I finished last Christmas. And when I say last Christmas, I mean I completed it just 5 minutes before our big Christmas dinner.
"Why make the post now?" one may wonder. I'm making it now because I am just about done the matching top, of course! (...almost a year later)
To start off, I grabbed a fitted dress of similar fabric that I know I like to make the pattern for the main skirt. For the peplum, I used a regular circle skirt pattern, but cut it so the final length would be around 9". The waistband is a 5" wide rectangle the length of my waist. Keep in mind seam allowances need to be added to these measurements.
To put it all together, I first folded the waist rectangle in half (hot dog style) and sewed the short ends together. After sewing the sides of the main skirt together, I sandwiched the peplum between the waistband and the skirt. When you sew this together, you should be sewing over 4 layers of fabric.
Finally, I hemmed everything and voila! A beautiful peplum-skirt-soon-to-be-ensemble!
XOXO,
Zahira
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