2 Pleated Skirts - Leaves
I made 2 knife-pleated skirts. One out of a quilting cotton printed with fall leaves, the other in a (probably) cotton flannel also printed with fall leaves though more sparsely. I followed https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Pleated-Skirt to get the general formula for skirts like these. For the quilting cotton, I just used the 45" width of the fabric for my two panels, and cut a waist+seam allowance waistband. For the flannel, I used a bit less than the width of the fabric because it was a (probably) king-sized sheet. Then I did 1" knife pleats across the panels, leaving a bit for seam allowance at the edges. For the cotton I did 2 panels and for the flannel I did one. There doesn't seem to be much difference in how the skirt acts in one or the other that is obviously due to number of panels. Following the directions, I then stitched these pleats down and sewed the side seam(s) down, leaving a ~4" section unsewn at the top of one of the seams. I then ...