10 Minute Knit Circle Skirt for Barbie® Pattern and Tutorial

Circle skirts are so fun and easy and using a freezer paper pattern, you can make a bunch up pretty quick.

What you need:

• A 9″ x 9″ square piece of knit fabric (10 x 10 for cotton option listed below)
• A 4.5″ by inch piece of jersey knit for the band (I cut up old t-shirt scraps)
• Pattern (Click here to download it)
• Freezer paper
• Sewing Supplies: Scissors, Sewing Machine, thread, iron, etc.

Step 1: Trace pattern onto freezer paper and cut out.

Step 2. Fold square of fabric in half, with wrong sides together.

Step 3. Fold in half again.

Step 4. Lay patter on with the folded corner peeking out the smaller side of the pattern and with the edges of the pattern lined up with the

edges of the folds.

Step 5. Iron it down.

Step 6. Cut around outside of pattern

Step 7. Peel the pattern off.

Step 8. Unfold the skirt

Step 9. When I make a circle skirt for my girls, I just pin the band around the inner circle, but this circle is too tiny for me to sew, so I make one cut for a back seam.

Step 10. Fold the band in half.

Step 11. Pin the band to the right side of the smaller edge of the skirt. (You may need to stretch the band to line it up right)

Step 12. Sew a ¼” seam .

Step 13. Press the seam out.

Step 14. Line up the side edges right side together, pin, and sew a 1/4″ seam.

Step 15. Turn right side out, press and dress. Your Barbie® can wear it with the band up or down.

Repeat as desired.

I don’t finish the edges on these skirts because the knit doesn’t fray and it looks fine to me. You could sew a tiny hem if you chose to, but my girls would rather have a few skirts than one with finished hems.

You can also make this skirt with cotton fabric attached to a knit band. The pattern has an option for this. It has a bigger opening because the cotton doesn’t stretch like the knit and it is a bit longer so you can do a ½” inch hem. I hemmed after I cut the back seam, but before I attached the band. I also finished my edges with an overcasting stitch. You could use a serger, a zig zag stitch or pinking shears. This skirt takes a little longer, but is just as cute, especially if you don’t have access to cute knits and want to use up some cotton scraps.