Making an Orseund Iris Ballerina Skirt (It's Surprisingly Easy!!) | DIY Wrap Skirt Tutorial

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hey guys welcome back to my channel

so today we are going to be doing

another diy project that was literally

popular last year but i'm just now

getting around to it for some reason

and we're going to be diying an orson to

iris ballerina skirt

so while i was scrolling on pinterest

the other day trying to come up with

some more video ideas

i came across this skirt again that i

saw going around the internet like last

year and i kind of fell in love with it

all over again because i think it's just

so pretty and elegant

and it just has such a pretty shape to

it so i thought that would be a really

fun project that shouldn't be too hard

to do either so it should be pretty

beginner friendly

and i was thinking you know it was cute

then i still think it's cute now so why

not make it anyway

so i headed to my joann's yesterday and

i found this really pretty white fabric

i'm not 100 sure but i think that this

is a rayon fabric i would love to get

like something a little bit more like a

silk

but this is the best option i could find

that had a really really pretty drape to

it

so i got three yards of it because i'm

actually going to be using some of it

for a lining for another project

but if you're getting fabric just for

this skirt i would recommend getting

probably one yard should be enough

and again you can really choose whatever

kind of fabric you want you just want it

to be

lightweight and have a really really

pretty drape to it and mine is a little

bit more see-through than i would have

hoped for

so i'm probably just going to wear some

tan booty shorts underneath it but if

you wanted to make this out of a fabric

that wasn't white it would probably be

easier to find a fabric that was more

opaque

and like i mentioned this roster should

be pretty easy and it's honestly

probably not going to take very much

sewing either

so i think we should start putting it

all together

so the whole base of this skirt is

really just made up of a circle skirt

so the way you're going to do this is

you're going to take your piece of

fabric and fold it in half

and then you're going to take that piece

and fold it in half again the other way

and then from there you should have this

square section to work with and then

from the center point that have the two

folded edges on either side

you're going to put your measuring tape

right on that corner and you're going to

mark out a bunch of dots that are four

and a half inches away from that center

and also dots that are 18 inches away

from that center and then you're going

to connect all of these dots into a

circle shape that should look pretty

similar to the little diagram i drew for

your guys

and then you're going to cut out these

two quarter circle shapes and if you

need to change the size of this skirt

it's actually super easy

if you need it to be bigger you just

move both of the dots away from the

center

and if you need it to be smaller you

move the dots closer to the center

you can also adjust how far out the

skirt goes to make it longer or shorter

so once you cut out this piece you can

unfold one of the sides and you should

have half of a circle that has a folded

edge on either side

so we're going to cut open one of those

sides so we can actually open up this

entire circle

and then to get some of the bottom

detailing that's on the original skirt

you're going to measure three inches

away from the bottom of one of the sides

and cut a curve that kind of flows back

into the bottom of the skirt and this is

just that we have some more layers when

the pieces overlap in the front

and once you cut that the skirt base is

done and here's your weekly sophie

footage as she walks through my shot

but the piece i'm trying to show you

here is the waistband piece and these

pieces are super super long

we're going to wrap them around our

waist a few times when we tie up the

skirt so you want to cut two pieces out

that are both four inches tall and 70

inches wide

and that is all the pieces that you're

going to need for this skirt

so after i mentally assembled this whole

skirt in my head i realized just how

simple this is

i actually really underestimated how

easy this tutorial is going to be

because there's really very few steps in

this process the first one of which

though is we're going to hem the sides

of the skirt so basically these short

little straight edges here on both sides

so i'm just going to fold it over twice

and do a cute little hem along it

and for all of the hems of this skirt

i'm going to try to make them pretty

thin

just so that we keep the flowy drape of

the fabric

the next step on the skirt is working on

the waistband so i'm going to take the

waistband piece and i wasn't able to

make this one strip i had to cut it into

two pieces

so i'm just going to sew one of the

edges together to make this into one

continuous piece

it's so long oh my gosh now that we have

our super gigantic waistband

the next step is we're going to sew the

edges together

except for where we want to attach it to

the skirt so i'm going to take this

piece and i'm going to fold it in half

and put it together

so the way this is going to work is i'm

going to measure out the top of the

waist of the skirt to see how big this

section is now

so mine is about 33 inches so i'm just

going to round it up to 34 to make this

a little bit simpler

so half of 34 is 17. so from the center

of the waistband i'm going to mark out

17 inches

on both sides and i'm going to place a

vertical pin here so i know where to

start and stop

so now that we have the sections where

the skirt is going to go i'm going to

put these sides together and sew

down all along these pieces making sure

to start and stop where these pins are

so we don't want to sew through the

center section at all

and then when i get to the ends i'm

going to pivot the foot of my machine

and make these kind of go at a diagonal

so we have these really pretty ties

and now i'm going to take this whole

piece and i'm going to turn it right

side out

so i just use this little middle tool

that is very very broken

but you can totally use like just a

pencil or a chopstick

and you just put it through the sewn

little ends and you're just going to

guide it all the way through to turn it

right side out

and now i'm going to take this to the

iron so i'm just ironing out the sewn

pieces so they will be nice and flat

and then when we get to the part that we

left open i'm going to fold down both of

the raw edges

and iron this together and we want to

make this look like it was sewn

continuously all the way down

so just for reference after i sewed out

all my waistband pieces

they ended up being about an inch and a

quarter thick so i made them really thin

because we're going to wrap them around

us a few times you don't want it to be

too thick

and now we have to attach the skirt to

the waistband so basically the way we're

going to do this is we're going to open

up the section that we didn't sew

and we're going to put the top edge of

the skirt through there and then top

stitch it

so i put a pin at the center of the

skirt and i'm going to attach that to

the center of the waistband first to

make it nice and even

and basically i'm going to open up the

waistband lay the skirt on top of it

about half an inch into the waistband

and then i'm going to put the waistband

back down on top of it

and put a pin to secure it and you're

just going to repeat that process all

the way down the skirt

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and now i'm going to sew all along the

bottom edge of the waistband

now that the waistband is attached to

the skirt it is looking

so good and i'm so excited about it and

the very last step to do

is to just add a little hem all around

the bottom edge

so i'm going to make this hem just as

small as i can make it and i could use a

rolled hem foot to do this

but i think i'm going to fold it over

and pin it myself just because this

fabric has a little bit of stretch to it

and i don't want to make the hem all

wavy by using a rolled hem foot

and here is the finished skirt

okay but why is this skirt like just the

cutest i'm honestly so obsessed with it

it's so fun to style

and i think it turned out pretty close

to the original i was honestly blown

away by how easy the design was because

if you're looking at it just from the

photos it looks really complex for some

reason

but once you put it all together it's

actually super super simple to do

yourself

and i think the shape is really

flattering and it's just so fun to like

pair with your tops as you can get that

kind of strappy detail or you can push

it lower onto your waist so it's just

one waistband

and it's a really fun piece to have in

your closet and it's also a really fun

piece to twirl in

so highly recommend if you guys give

this skirt a try you can always send me

a picture on instagram i'd love to see

them

and if you want to see more of my videos

i post new ones every friday

so i hope to see you guys there bye