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Okay so I decided to make Tikvah a petti skirt for Christmas. She is 6 and loves dress up and make-up, and girly fluff. We are pretty conservative though, and my husband was concerned it may be see through. I explained with all the chiffon it shouldn't be, but even still I made it with the outside all satin.(I think that is what it is :P) Either way this is how I did it. We shall see if she likes comes Christmas. Please keep in mind, I have never made a tutorial before. There are many out there that are way better. But thank you for looking at mine if you do. :)

First I looked on all the different sites at the pictures. Type in free petti skirt pattern on Google and you will find plenty. I didn't really measure out my piece, I kind of eye balled it. That is how i normally work. Lots and lots of strips of chiffon. Then a few larger strips of it, then some larger ones of the satin. then 2 pieces for the waist band. Then I started sewing the ruffle first.

I don't have a rufflier, I hate to gather by hand. There was so much of this I had to figure out something. What I did may not work for you or your machine. I wouldn't know. I experimented and it worked. I held bold sides and pushed it up under the foot so it was bunched. Then I sewed that part slowly. I continued to do this all the way down my strips. it saved a lot of thread too. But again, I don't know if this will work for somebody else or not.

Then I sewed the ruffle to my bottom tier. Then gathered that tier and sewed it to my top tier.

I did the same thing with the satin. Only all the bottom ruffle on both the satin and chiffon is made of the chiffon. I didn't make any ruffle out of satin. Just the tiers. Then I sewed the waist band . After that I ironed on some of that steam lite stuff on the edges and where I was making button hole. Then I sewed the satin side and the chiffon side onto the waist band. then folded it down so it became a skirt.

Then I sewed neared the edge, and further down. Enough space to have my ribbon run through without bunching too much. Then I sewed my ribbon on each side of one piece of elastic. I fed it through using a safety pin.