How to pattern ANY kind of flared skirt | How the math works | gathered, a-line, circle skirts, etc.

All flared skirts have the same geometric formula behind them. In this video, I made 12 patterns, but in reality you can make an infinite number of variations, using different lengths, different amounts of gathering, different degrees of flare, in any combination you want. Here is how.

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[EmmaAppleBerry]

They should totally teach math eith cooking and sewing etc instead of actual math cause i wouldve 100% been able to get my math dyslexia brain to mesh with it.

[Ninjozata]

For the folks that fear math. Just use centimetres. I PROMISE it’s easier. It’s not scary, and the decimals aren’t as weird. When using inches, how much are you loosing to round off 0.6187 or 0.29013 to the nearest fractal inch?
Centimetres and millimetres friends, this is what the system was built for lol

[JenileaBedelia]

That feeling when your waist measurement is the same and you can just steal all of Mariah’s numbers and not have to do any maths at all 🥳 thanks Mariah!!

[MsNarutosuchti]

Fellow cm users!
Waist measurement is 72, 5 cm and 1/4 circumferences are
100% = 18, 1 cm
200% = 36, 2 cm
300% = 54, 3 cm

90°: r100 = 11, 4; r200 = 22, 9; r300 = 34, 6
67, 5°: r100 = 15, 25; r200 = 30, 5; r300 = 46
45°: r100 = 22, 9; r200 = 46; r300 = 69, 2
22, 5°: r100 = 46; r200 = 92; r300 = 138, 1

Much thanks for the video! It´s going to be so useful!

[claireloub]

As a maths teacher I salute your calculations, especially the fleeting use of pi. And I love the chart! So nice and organised. Though as a Brit I despair at inches and all those decimal equivalents of fractions

[drkatel]

This is great! Saves my brain a lot of agony.
Random comment now: My mom (born 1932) had an 8th grade education and was very "math disabled" and yet she sewed her whole life. She made countless bridesmaids', homecoming & prom dresses, etc. If you asked her to work a math problem on paper she literally had an anxiety attack yet she could figure out how to draft anything. Not sure what her methods were but now that I've started sewing I'm in awe of what she accomplished.

[maidenrohina]

For the 3/4 circle skirt math, an easier way to find the circumference measurement is to divide the full circle skirt circumference by 0.75. So 28.5/0.75=38, 57/0.75=76, 85.5/0.75=114. I find that if I can do less steps with the math I'm less likely to make a mistake and thought I would mention a simpler method. Hopefully it helps.

[pay]

My brain checked out once the math started, but i admire the amount of time you put into this!

[lickthismiff]

This is such a rookie mistake for someone who's been sewing as long as I have, but I literally just realised why all my circle skirts have turned out a little bit too big in the waist. I never deduct the seam allowance! I always work out my radius and then cut along that line, so then obviously once I've sewn it, it's half an inch bigger, which on a curve like this feels massive. I really think I'm going to make a paper pattern now and just get it over with, I always argue that it's more work to create the pattern than it is to just draw it on the fabric, but it's really not. Great video!

[mokanger]

This is a pretty good idea. I make a lot of circle skirts, and always just measure it out on the fabric. I mostly can just never be bothered making a paper pattern, but if I pose it to myself as a project in its own right I can make a few that I'm most likely to use and then dont have to go to the trouble again

[nathaliel.]

That rolling tool is called a Tracing wheel 😄
Well done video! I enjoyed watching it a lot

[ashleya]

The first 30 seconds had my engineer side hooked 😂
Thank you, this was both satisfying and informative to watch.

[joannakasper]

I've been sewing for years and made circle skirts before but not often enough that I don't have to relearn the process each time. I found a fancy calculator programme on the internet but I wasn't impressed. Then I remembered this video. Thank you Mariah, this is so clearly explained that I made the skirt and it fit perfectly.

[lupakajsalisa]

I didn't realise I was looking for a video like this after Morgan Donner's 'Shenanigan pants' video, when I didn't understand how she turned a circle skirt pattern into an Edwardian panelled skirt!

This will probably make it easier 😊

But, if by any chance you are considering making a video about how to adapt this pattern into a 5-10 panelled one with fishtail gathers, for example, then that would be excellent for very many fans of Edwardian fashion, who would like the drafting process simplified 😌

(Think Bernadette walking skirt, Morgan Donner shenanigan pants, etc ...)

Thank you as always for your hard work and your investing form of mentorship, Mariah!

[Lena-tlrz]

I love the full explanations on skirts! Really makes sense when you show the patterns so clearly. Only thing that hurts my brain is the inches as a person who uses centimeters I lost what measurement was which as I couldn’t follow the numbers but I’ll get them eventually. I absolutely loved the pictures showing what pattern made what. Thank you.

[throughcolouredglasses]

After watching this, I think there should be a program or tool where you can put in how much fabric you have and what your waist measurements are, and then the tool gives you all the possible options of % of fullness and skirt length that you could make with that amount of fabric.
I wish i knew enough about programming or math to do this, but unfortunately i don't. It would be super neat tho!
Maybe even have options for putting in any of these measurements (waist, fullness, length, total fabric used/needed) and it gives out all the options for the ones you left open. I'd love to see all my options of what i can do with the amount of fabric i have etc.

This video was a great visualisation of how all of this works, thank you!!

[PoopHobbit]

I went to school for pattern drafting and this was so much easier to follow than the way we learned 😅😂 thanks for the refresher!

[ashleysmith]

You're literally the only person I've found on YouTube who not only explains the math, but in a way math dyslexics can understand. ❤️

[beauclausen]

I love a good practical math application, that whole grid set up you did was VERY satisfying, and very helpful! This is definitely the kind of reference I want to keep track of

[CheyRose]

I’ve now been sewing circle skirts for two years and finally am attempting to branch from full circle to the other sizes, and I have screenshots from October 2022 of this video I always fall back on. Thank you ❤