How to lengthen a lace skirt

Lace is a textile product that has an ornamental (openwork) design and is used when sewing clothes, creating accessories and home textiles. And if 10–20 years ago, feminine outfits made of fine textile were trimmed with them, today you can meet denim and tweed skirts with a delicate openwork edge. Moreover, every woman who has minimal knowledge in the field of sewing can become the owner of such an interesting wardrobe item.

Preparation for work

Before you start sewing a new skirt or finishing an old product with a lace cloth, you should carefully prepare yourself. Initially, you need to purchase the necessary materials - lace fabric, threads and other decorative details (if the idea implies their use).

Materials and tools that will be needed for work

To create a fashionable, stylish and well-fitting skirt with a lace bottom, you will need:

  1. Skirt from any fabric.
  2. Lace.
  3. Pins, needle.
  4. Scissors.
  5. Thread number 30 or number 40.

You will also need a sewing machine, but in its absence, you can limit yourself to manual sewing.

How to prepare a skirt for alteration

Before starting work, the product must be washed and ironed. If you plan to sew the lace edge on the front side, then you need to embroider the hem.

How to choose lace to lengthen the skirt

Modern fashion erases all the canons of style, so how to choose lace for a skirt does not matter. If you want to make an elegant product, then openwork lace should be selected in the color of the fabric. To create extravagant models, you can choose contrasting combinations - for example, a floral pattern and black delicate guipure, a denim mini with delicate white lace.

Lengthening skirts lace

You can modify a thing that has long been lying on the far shelf of the cabinet using lace in several ways - just sew a guipure lace braid to the lower section of the skirt or make a beautiful insert to extend the product.

Important! It should be understood that a thing decorated with guipure automatically becomes elegant. The exception is jeans products, which are most often chosen by young fashionistas for their wardrobes in their teens.

How to sew lace to the bottom of the skirt

A similar way of decoration is suitable for any style. Sequencing:

  1. Prepare the product, a 1 m long lace strip and sewing accessories.
  2. Spread the hem below, smooth the seams (it is better to steam) with an iron.
  3. Attach a guipure strip over the front of the item, attach with pins. At the same time, 20-30% of the lace should touch the hem, the rest should hang down.
  4. Sew lace lace using a sewing machine or manually.

It is possible to sew an openwork cloth asymmetrically, if its width allows.

How to lengthen a skirt with a lace insert at the bottom of the product

You can also lengthen the thing with the help of a guipure insert, but this will take twice as much time. Work sequence:

  1. Prepare the lace of the desired length.
  2. From the wrong side of the thing, draw a cut line with a ruler and chalk (you can take a remnant).
  3. Cut the hem of the product.
  4. To process edges of the cut parts.
  5. Attach a guipure braid in the middle of the two parts, attach it to the fabric with pins. You can sew lace from the wrong side and from the front.

Sewing lace to the bottom of the skirt is a low-cost and quick method. But you can do it another way: sew a long hem of tulle or other translucent material (voile, veil, gas or organza) to the product’s belt. To give such a thing elegance, you can sew on the transparent bottom guipure braid. If desired, you can create lace frills, use several types of decorative material.