{"id":2439,"date":"2025-06-01T15:47:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T19:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2025-06-02T19:38:31","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T23:38:31","slug":"pride-skort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lorrie.cranor.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/01\/pride-skort\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride skort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last summer when I visited Mood Fabrics<\/a> in New York City I bought a yard of slinky rainbow polyester fabric with the intention of making a skirt to wear at the Pittsburgh Pride parade this year. A couple of weeks before Pride I realized I had not gotten around to making the skirt. I flipped through my pattern collection and decided that the Pattern Emporium Sashay Stretch Flared Shorts<\/a> would be even better than a skirt. They come in subtle, medium, and full variations, with multiple lengths and waistband options. The subtle version is a slightly flared pair of shorts, but the full version is a skort that looks a lot like a skirt — but offers a little more modesty. I decided to use the full version with a 1.5-inch covered elastic waistband. I was going to add pockets, but after reading the pocket warning in the pattern instructions, I was concerned that if I put anything in them they would stretch out too much with the fabric I was using. So I decided to forgo pockets and plan to wear pocket bike shorts or leggings with pockets underneath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I cut out the size AU 10 full version at the short length. The shorts are cut with just two pieces (one for each leg) and a waistband. I was just barely able to get these pieces out of a single yard of fabric (and it was clear that the long length would require more fabric). Because I was using striped fabric and I wanted the rainbow to line up where the legs meet at the crotch, I cut out one leg and then flipped it over and laid it down on the fabric, perfectly aligned. I traced around the first leg and cut out the second leg. I used my fabric glue stick to glue the crotch pieces in place before surging them together so that the stripe alignment would not slip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The pattern instructions said that swim fabric did not need to be hemmed and this slinky fabric is similar to swim and also won’t unravel so I did not bother to hem it. I basted the waistband on three times before I was able to distribute the shorts fabric evenly, but eventually I got it and surged the waistband on. And that was it… easy peasy! Without pockets or hemming, this is a very quick sew!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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