This skirt finished is 30 inches along the seams and 26.5 inches across the middle.
Materials Needed:
- 6 strips 15 inches wide by 42 inches long, or you can do
12 strips 2.5 inches wide by 42 inches long - scissors, but if you have the rotary cutter, It’s super easy (I do not)
- Newspaper to make a pattern, or a large cutting mat with an angle marked at 60 degrees (I need to find where to get one of those here)
- a large ruler to span the angle over your fabric
- 3-4 meters of ribbon. (I used 4 meters)
Choose your layout for two separate strip sets: 3 strips or 6 strips to each set.
The Steps for sewing:
First make two strip sets:
- Sew 6 strips together for the first strip set
- Sew the other 6 strips for the second strip set
Cutting the “Pyramids”
- Using a Cutting Mat:
- Find the 60 degree angle on your cutting mat
- Cut strips sets into 6 triangles being sure to follow your angles
- Using a pattern from paper:
- Calculate your 60 degree angles. (and the equation for the height of equilateral triangle look as follows: h = a * √3 / 2 , where a is a side of the triangle.) Do you remember how we thought we would never use geometry, algebra or trigonometry again in our lives after high school? yeah me too!
- Draw the angles out on paper and then cut out the “pattern” and cut strips sets into 6 triangles being sure to follow your pattern.
Putting it all together:
- Arrange your triangles into a hexagon
- Sew them together, leaving one seam open between the triangles.
- The one seam is the opening for the tree.
- use some of the scrap fabric to line the hole for the tree at the top of the pyramids.
- Surge your seams or zig zag them.
- Lastly sew your ribbon on at the ends.
Note: I started off sewing two triangles facing together for the first part, then added another, etc. I did not pin everything together at first, I did them one at a time.
I completed this for the second time in one hour! The first time, after I was playing Galileo and doing crazy mathematical equations and deciding If I wanted to use an old wine box to make a pyramid form, or just use paper. I lost some time…
