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Picking Fabric for Clothing Alterations
How to Cut Shorts into a Skirt
Measuring & Drawing Inserts for Skirt Alterations
Pinning Inserts for Skirt Alterations
Cutting Inserts for Skirt Alterations
Re-cutting Shorts for Gore Inserts
Attaching Inserts to Shorts
Cutting & Attaching Patches for Skirts
Sewing Inserts to Skirts
Sewing Patches Onto Skirts
Sewing the Hem on New Clothing Inserts
How to Press an Altered Skirt
Summary: Re-cut shorts to accept a gore insert. Learn how to turn shorts into a skirt in this free sewing video.
Melina Piroso was born in Argentina and raised in the USA. She studied Fine Arts at FIU in Miami, and Fashion Design at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. Her art is surrealistic in...read more
"Hi, I'm Melina and welcome to Expert Village. In this next step, we're going to calculate how much more of your shorts we have to cut. So, if you just take this piece and you sew it into this open area, what's going to happen is the short is going to try to naturally go back to its old position and it's going to try to close. So, what you have to do is, you have to remove some of this excess fabric. So what we're going to do, we're going to take our shorts and we're going to lay them out flat, like this. We're going to put the triangle over the short and see about how far it comes out from the center of the triangle. And then we're going to cut along this line. Okay."
eHow Article: Re-cutting Shorts for Gore Inserts
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