Tutorials

Due to the long length of the Mornington skirt, there may be a few of you wanting to remove some length from it. For this reason, we placed two LENGTHEN / SHORTEN LINES on the pattern so that you can remove (or add) length to the pattern without impacting the design. If you are just removing a couple of centimetres, you'll be okay just to remove it from one area - from the middle panels or the lower panels. Any more and I suggest you remove half from the middle panels and half from the lower panels. To determine how...

We received this great question about the Mornington skirt, and I thought I'd answer it here as I am sure there are others wondering the same! Hi there, I've just bought your beautiful Mornington skirt pattern. I'm pear-shaped though - waist your size C, hips D - E. Do you have tips for how much I'd want to grade out at the hips and where on the pattern to do it? Or do you reckon that this is the kind of wide-hipped skirt where it wouldn't matter too much? I don't have too much of a problem with ready to wear...

Use a large-eye needle to thread chains back through the stitching, where they will be tucked neatly and safely out of the way. Scroll to the end of this post if you prefer to view this in video format rather than still images.