I needed a warm skirt for fall, and wanted to make something a little bit dark, a little bit gothy, so here’s the result.
To make the skirt, I drafted a basic six gore pattern with two additional pocketed gores. For a tutorial on how to draft the skirt yourself (and for other how-to’s) visit my blog at mollytov.com
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Looks really good. I love the colour too:)