Laguna Sew Along

[Laura22]

So, the next step is to pin the second spiral seam to prepare for serging (or stitching then zig zagging) it.







This seam is just like the last one, start at the center and work outwards towards the tail end of the spiral. Your second spiral beginning will be across from your first spiral's beginning point and your tails of your spirals will wind up opposite one another on the hem of the skirt. Once you have pinned the second seam, it will look like this





Serging the second spiral seam, I am, once again, cautious about keeping my fabric from bunching up.



Once this seam is completed here is what you will see



This is the wrong side so you can see both seams

Here is the right side, looking like a skirt at last




Now we're into the home stretch and just going to add the finish and waistband. I'm not going to go into tons of detail on this part, but I'll share a bit in the next reply.

[Laura22]

As the pattern for this skirt says, there are a lot of ways to finish the skirt. You can finish the edges with a serger, bias tape, hems, whatever. I chose to serge the edges. This is a four thread overlock with the stitches close together like a rolled hem but the width is still the full width of a four thread overlock. It gives a look like bias tape and I like it. That said, I'm a total newbie to my serger so others can probably give better advice on this part.

Here are my finished edges





I've also topstitched the spiral seams to make the skirt hang nicely





The last step is to attach the elastic waist, once again, there are plenty of ways to do this and most everyone has done an elastic waistband at some point so I won't go into any detail here but I'll show a pic of the finished skirt to end this little sew along, hope it helped someone at least a little bit