They should totally teach math eith cooking and sewing etc instead of actual math cause i wouldve 100% been able to get my math dyslexia brain to mesh with it.
I agree. Math can be so interesting if you have context for how it's actually useful. Without context it's just meaningless numbers on paper and no wonder kids hate it.
@@MariahPattie As a math/science teacher, I find my students struggle so much not understanding why it is so important to learn many of these concepts. I have used math I learned in chemistry class to help me with scaling recipes so many times.
And it would be more accurate. Math is a tool humans invented to make things and study the world. The study of math itself, and playing with symbols independent of the real world, is a secondary field. But we act like you need to learn algebra in the abstract to use it in chemistry, cooking, and creating, rather than teaching it how it was invented, which was to make creating easier.
And music! And art! Math is the just the language of the universe. It’s like learning a foreign language but only adjectives and verbs. Then not applying it in conversation. Remembering geometry from high school made so much more sense when applying it to my sewing.
There was a chemistry teacher who couldn't get the girls to understand chemistry. He radically changed how he taught it. He got the girls to make and manufacture a lipstick. The whole process from start to marketing and selling. The girls transformed. They were able to do the complex formulations necessary when the subject was taught this way. I cannot do maths at all. I came in to the comments to see if there was any way of doing this that was easier and didn't involve complicated maths. It doesn't help that the imperial system is still being used in the US, when the rest of the world uses the metric system (centimetres etc.) I just don't understand why the whole business has to be so complicated. There must be an easier way.
For the folks that fear math. Just use centimetres. I PROMISE it’s easier. It’s not scary, and the decimals aren’t as weird. When using inches, how much are you loosing to round off 0.6187 or 0.29013 to the nearest fractal inch? Centimetres and millimetres friends, this is what the system was built for lol
YES! I always convert any measurements from imperial to metric. Bc ain´t nobody got time to look up what an eight of an inch is every time the measurement comes up.
That feeling when your waist measurement is the same and you can just steal all of Mariah’s numbers and not have to do any maths at all 🥳 thanks Mariah!!
I'm trying to make a skirt as a gift to someone... That someone is called Maria, and has the same waist measurements as Mariah... That's an interesting coincidence
As a maths teacher I salute your calculations, especially the fleeting use of pi. And I love the chart! So nice and organised. Though as a Brit I despair at inches and all those decimal equivalents of fractions
I am old enough to recall when the conversion to base-10 was halted in the midst of my third-grade math lesson. The principal walked in the classroom and called the whole thing off. True story.
This is great! Saves my brain a lot of agony. Random comment now: My mom (born 1932) had an 8th grade education and was very "math disabled" and yet she sewed her whole life. She made countless bridesmaids', homecoming & prom dresses, etc. If you asked her to work a math problem on paper she literally had an anxiety attack yet she could figure out how to draft anything. Not sure what her methods were but now that I've started sewing I'm in awe of what she accomplished.
For the 3/4 circle skirt math, an easier way to find the circumference measurement is to divide the full circle skirt circumference by 0.75. So 28.5/0.75=38, 57/0.75=76, 85.5/0.75=114. I find that if I can do less steps with the math I'm less likely to make a mistake and thought I would mention a simpler method. Hopefully it helps.
@@gosiamalaczek Nope it's divide not multiply, the reason that it's divide is because your going " I know that 0.75 of the total is equal to 28.5 (original circumference) or written mathematically X * 0.75 = 28.5 therefore to solve for X you need to divide both sides of the equation by 0.75 to end up with the final equation of X=28.5 / 0.75. So 38 = 28.5/0.75. Also if you still think its multiply this is what happens if you multiply it, 28.5*0.75 = 21.375. I'm an accountant, I do math for a living. You also could have just checked it.
@@maidenrohina funny that you are getting so snippy on someone who tried to nicely "correct" you (even if they were wrong) when you're on here yourself correcting Mariah. I don't see a need to correct the person who responded to you by being snarky.
@@funkypunkypine I understand your comment and can see where your coming from. I personally didn't think my reply was snarky I was just genuinely trying to explain why it wasn't multiply, why it was divide and the reason that it is divide. I see that the last sentence could be taken as snarky, but all I can say is that it wasn't meant that way and that I can now see that not all Australian mannerisms and humour translate well into text. I also wasn't correcting Mariah. There is nothing wrong with the way she calculated it and it gives you the correct answer. I was merely trying to show that there was a "simpler" method to calculate the answer, particularly for people who may struggle or dislike lots of math and therefore may have been put off trying this because of the "confusing" math that was needed. If I could provide a simpler way for more people to try making patterns that's all I wanted to do.
@@gosiamalaczek the confusion is: What is meant by 3/4 Circle Skirt? If we wanted to calculate 3/4 of the waist measurement (Full Circle Circumference), then yes, the equation would be C = Cfull x 0.75 [circumference = (full skirt circumference x 0.75)]. However, that is not what 3/4 Circle Skirt means. For the Full Circle Skirt, the waist measurement = the "full circle" = the Circumference. For the Half Circle Skirt, the waist measurement = only half of "the circle," so circumference = 2 x Full Circle Circumference. For the 3/4 Circle Skirt, the waist measurement = only 3/4, or 75%, "of the circle," i.e. 4/3 x Full Circle Circumference. One option is to 1st, divide by 3 -- now we know what 1 quarter of the measurement is -- 2nd, multiple by 4 so that you've accounted for all 4 quarters. Now we have the measurement for the new Circumference. This is the same as multiplying by 4/3 [multiply by 4, divide by 3] because in this case it doesn't matter if step 1 or 2 comes first. Or, you can simply divide the full circle measurement by 0.75 as @maidenrohina suggested. They show the algebra below [btw, dividing by 0.75, i.e. dividing by 3/4, = multiplying by 4/3].
I wondered if the video had been speeded up. The math took me back to my highschool algebra teachers, both of them mentally ill nuns. So I had to bow out . Too bad, because I would love to know how to make a circle skirt.
This is a pretty good idea. I make a lot of circle skirts, and always just measure it out on the fabric. I mostly can just never be bothered making a paper pattern, but if I pose it to myself as a project in its own right I can make a few that I'm most likely to use and then dont have to go to the trouble again
@@Bad_Housekeeping I learned that marking method from my 1960's home ec class 😅 I don't always use it today but I love it for darts. I see vintage tracing paper on eBay all the time although I don't know if it's still good or not 🤔
After watching this, I think there should be a program or tool where you can put in how much fabric you have and what your waist measurements are, and then the tool gives you all the possible options of % of fullness and skirt length that you could make with that amount of fabric. I wish i knew enough about programming or math to do this, but unfortunately i don't. It would be super neat tho! Maybe even have options for putting in any of these measurements (waist, fullness, length, total fabric used/needed) and it gives out all the options for the ones you left open. I'd love to see all my options of what i can do with the amount of fabric i have etc. This video was a great visualisation of how all of this works, thank you!!
Oh YES! A Girlfriend wants me to make her a wrap skirt. This is the fourth video I've watched and the only one that really laid out all possible styles with the measurements. I'm thinking she's going to need to buy a sheet as fabric rather than my trying to piece together anything. But I definitely will try to use this charting to do it correctly the first time
I love a good practical math application, that whole grid set up you did was VERY satisfying, and very helpful! This is definitely the kind of reference I want to keep track of
I've been sewing for years and made circle skirts before but not often enough that I don't have to relearn the process each time. I found a fancy calculator programme on the internet but I wasn't impressed. Then I remembered this video. Thank you Mariah, this is so clearly explained that I made the skirt and it fit perfectly.
I love the full explanations on skirts! Really makes sense when you show the patterns so clearly. Only thing that hurts my brain is the inches as a person who uses centimeters I lost what measurement was which as I couldn’t follow the numbers but I’ll get them eventually. I absolutely loved the pictures showing what pattern made what. Thank you.
Absolutely right. Throughout all Latin America what we use is centimeters. Perhaps yards are mentioned when buying material, but that’s about it. No inches whatsoever anywhere!
Inches are actually pretty simple. An inch is 1 inch. A half inch is 1/2 or 0.5 inches. A quarter inch is 1/4 or 0.25 inches. And so on and so forth. We don’t constantly convert between units like I’ve seen metric users do, so all the numbers are just measurements in the same unit. Same thing you can do with cm, but with a different starting number since it’s a differently sized unit. Hope this helps :D
@@ray-ee5pb Yes! Thank you! I never thought of dividing an inch so clearly. It has been a struggle when siddenly the person says that they use a certain part of an inch for this project and I need to stop my train of thought to calculate the amount, but really your descrition made me realize that a clearly written guide for different messurements of an inch would help me so much!
This is such a rookie mistake for someone who's been sewing as long as I have, but I literally just realised why all my circle skirts have turned out a little bit too big in the waist. I never deduct the seam allowance! I always work out my radius and then cut along that line, so then obviously once I've sewn it, it's half an inch bigger, which on a curve like this feels massive. I really think I'm going to make a paper pattern now and just get it over with, I always argue that it's more work to create the pattern than it is to just draw it on the fabric, but it's really not. Great video!
I didn't realise I was looking for a video like this after Morgan Donner's 'Shenanigan pants' video, when I didn't understand how she turned a circle skirt pattern into an Edwardian panelled skirt! This will probably make it easier 😊 But, if by any chance you are considering making a video about how to adapt this pattern into a 5-10 panelled one with fishtail gathers, for example, then that would be excellent for very many fans of Edwardian fashion, who would like the drafting process simplified 😌 (Think Bernadette walking skirt, Morgan Donner shenanigan pants, etc ...) Thank you as always for your hard work and your investing form of mentorship, Mariah!
I am not a math person, so thank you for making this so clear. This was very helpful. And a great idea to get the math over with so future you has set patterns ready to use.
My cheater method for 1/4 skirt - I have a 15” difference between waist and hips - is fit to hips and toss on an elastic or stretchy fabric waist. It turns slightly gathered, but it works. Can also dart the excess, but I’m lazy.
@@bridgetthewench I do it for most circle skirts, since I’m lazy. More that since I live in stretchy waist pants (scrubs) I go for anything with a stretchy waist.
BRILLIANT! Thank you x 3, both for your fearlessness of math, but also for your no-nonsense presentation. I'm new to sewing and your chart was an immense help to me. You made the calculations make sense. I'm off to attempt my first 3/4 circle skirt!
I’ve now been sewing circle skirts for two years and finally am attempting to branch from full circle to the other sizes, and I have screenshots from October 2022 of this video I always fall back on. Thank you ❤
After watching that twice, second time following along with my own measurements, I think I might finally understand how to make these myself. Switching between metric and imperial has addled my brain, the conversion chart for fractions to decimal might help with that a smidge. In the absence of any large pieces of paper I'll try using old newspapers, which we have in abundance. Thank you
Christmas or birthday wrapping paper, sold on rolls and frequently discounted, has a lovely blank side on the back. I use that for pattern making. Some even has a grid on the back, to make it easier to cut!
This definitely supports the idea that inches really are meant to just stay fractions. Once you get smaller than a quarter the decimals get so fiddly, but the fractions stay nice and intuitive. Shame calculators insist on only working with decimals. So thank you for that conversion chart!
That serrated-edge rolling tool is simply called a Tracing Wheel, traditionally used in sewing garments. Placing colored "tracing" paper between the paper pattern and the fabric to transfer pattern markings to the fabric. Old-school but nifty. 🙂
I love the point you made about saving paper (for future projects) by making a bunch of templates up front! Spitballing here, but I could also see hacking a tool that speeds up drafting by putting a ruler on a pivot in the protractor's center (and I'm pretty sure I've seen some architecture drafting tool like this): 1) set the angle of the skirt piece on the protractor; 2) set the waist radius on the ruler by attaching a pen, then sweep the ruler through the whole angle; 3) move the pen out on the ruler to waist radius + skirt length, then sweep again for the hem
This was a genuinely helpful video! I've done a 3/4 circle and went though doing all the math, but the visualization of the different waist lengths for gathers vs pleats was really excellent. Thank you!
Very nice, and informative video. I am already in the process of making a 3/4 circle, using 3, 1/4 pieces, and putting pockets in the 2, and then obviously a zipper in the 3rd. I figured out that my waist measurement devided by 3, then multiply by 4, gives me a theoretical waist for a full circle, so I drafted my 1/4 pattern, and cut 3 pieces!
Thank you for sharing your skills. Very clear and accurate. Specially as there are so many people that claims to know about sewing and just do such a bad job. Very grateful for your time and effort in putting this together.
I’ve been sewing as a hobby for 50 years: upholstery, bedding, quilting, garment construction. .. This video? Brilliant and concise. I love watching bright things and meticulously constructed things… might be owed to a degree in Accounting/BCIS/Math, but I think it’s you. 😀. Thank You. 👍🇺🇸🇨🇱
As a guy who is probably never going to sew a skirt I think this was an excellent video; your math was well presented, the scaling from A-line to 300% perfectly described, and your rationale for design decisions logically presented. I'm not math-phobic, but definitely don't use much in the sewing (bags, packs, bike bags, boating stuff) as I might. Thanks.
I love to see all the different patterns together + the pictures so I can imagine better what the skirt made from each is going to look like. I bet it is going to be so nice to just be able to pull out one of these patterns instead of having to draft them from scrath when starting a new project!
Thank you Mariah for a brief but brilliant encapsulation of all you need to understand about flared skirt patterns. It comes thick and fast, but is so well organised. I'll need to watch four or five times with pauses to take it all in, and then I'll know! Just bought some lovely summer fabric, so here I go with a half circle skirt gathered 200% at the waist.
The A line skirt with the gathered hem is actually really awesome. I made one from a 50's vintage pattern once and I loved it. Thank you, this is a wonderful, wonderful tool.
one of the best things you can invest in - are those pattern foldable cardboard boards with the circles already marked on them, and if you know how to use it - can make anything.
I would love to see this same type of math for a fan style skirt that might be used for a Victorian/Edwardian walking skirt. Thanks for your clear explanation of circle skirts it was great!
it's actually pretty simple. the back is a flared skirt like these. You can make it wider at the top for more gathers, and wider at the bottom for more fullness. The front is basically a fitted a-line or half circle skirt. The main difference is that a Victorian skirt would have been worn over a corset and padding, so there'd be an extreme hourglass shape, so you need to add curves and darts to fit it over your hips like I showed with the a-line skirt diagram.
@@MariahPattie Thank you so much! This is the simplest/clearest explanation I’ve gotten for a drafting a fan skirt. I only have so much of my nice wool fabric and want to make the fullest skirt I can but bought patterns are not exactly designed to minimize waste or to maximize a smaller amount of fabric then what they call for.
I took a sewing class and we made a circle skirt but no maths, just sort of guessing... I was left thinking "There's got to be a better way to do this". This is the better way, thank you so much!
I have been looking for a simple skirt pattern...n this blew my mind...i can literally have 12 patterns in one go! I've saved this video and will DEF be trying it this week!
Thank you so very much for this wonderful tutorial. I just watching videos on how to draft sewing patterns. Your video is an excellent way to understand how this type of skirt works. Thank you for all the math, it makes complete sense and I'm loving it. Oh and by the way, that thingamajig is called a tracing wheel 😊
This video is excellent. I wish we had videos like this when I was making ballroom dancing ballgowns. We used DOUBLE circle skirts, maybe more to get that beautiful twirl effect on the dance floor and NO GATHERS allowed at the waist. Getting that accurate waist measurement is so important.
Thank you so much for this!!! It’s very helpful and I am really really really happy you made it so simple. A year ago I decided to just wear skirts but it’s hard to find nice affordable skirts everywhere so I decided to retake sewing. But Im terrible with patterns and finding one that fits me is hard so this will make my life better! 🙏🏼❤️
My brain is absolutely fried trying to follow this right now 😂I can't reconcile the whole half/full/quarter circle = fuller skirts in my mind. I think I may need more coffee. And a notepad.
This is such an helpful video and love how you actually cut all the patterns to visualize it. At the same time it was very confusing since I only learned the metric system and the imperial system always leaves me puzzeled 😂
I have to say you have one of the most understandable explanations and are very easy to listen to, thanks a dozen Mariah! PS: I use big rubble-sacs as a pattern sheet, doesnt rip and is see through in case you want to match prints! u should give it a try!
Thank you for this video! I am taking on the challenge of making my own wedding dress and have very minimal knowledge and this really helped me understand the different concepts of skirts and why they are the way they are. Again thank you!!!!
This is exactly what I have been looking for over the past couple weeks. This is perfect! I can't thank you enough. Really appreciate you for this video!
Mariah I cannot thank you enough for making this accessible to someone like me who cannot do math to save my life. You make it so engaging and give so many pictures which makes it actually understandable. I kept thinking while watching this video that we ought to teach math with sewing and cooking instead of just numbers on a board!! Cheers to you:)
This is going to be super helpful - just as soon as I can translate from inches to centimetres/millimetres. Thank you for a very clear explanation. It's also brilliant that you spent the time patterning the variations so that when you want to make a skirt for a project you just grab the one you want and off you go. I shall have to do this and will be having your video on hand so I know what to do.
This was really helpful, even if only to see how a skirt that looks hard to understand can actually be figure out and patterned using one of these options. Thank you for making this video!
I've literally been holding off on making circle skirts for years because even though they're supposedly "simple", the circle skirt calculators I've used in the past have all just given me a warning saying that my measurements don't work on a "standard width fabric", so I should consider making a shorter skirt... I couldn't find information on how many more yards of fabric I'd need to buy to make up for the lack of width, or what shape I should be cutting out instead (since the folding method wouldn't work), how and where to cut it, etc. I'd just given up on it until I found your video 🙏 You explain everything so thoroughly, and it's actually so much simpler than I expected, thank you so much for your hard work! 💜
I applied to college to be a math major, which didn't end up working out.... but now that I'm learning sewing, I've found it soooo satisfying to get to use that part of my brain again! I'm happy to see some math nerd representation in the sewing community, instead of the "ugh math" attitude most people have :)
Hi Mariah - Watching this video, my mind is going to "What Lovely Skirts I could make!!!" I have to "pull back," as I haven't even gotten to sewing my 1st Vintage Kitchen Apron yet!!! Thx for being an Inspiration!! Beautifully done!!! ♡♡♡♡
Thank you so much. I love numbers and charts. I'll be sharing this video with acquaintances that say "you like to sew, you need to make me a full skirt, it should be easy" :) .
Thanks but you lost me when you didn't explain how to actually use the patterns, i.e. how many times you would have to fold the fabric for each pattern. Is it 4 layers for each one? I suppose I am too much of a newbie to follow. I also don't understand how the waist measurement doesn't need to factor in the seam allowance, or why you said you actually don't need to put seam allowances at the top.
This is wonderful and yes, you did loose me halfway through. But I'll keep trying to get it because what a great idea! Having these on hand would make sewing a project for yourself so much easier and give more motivation for getting started.
This video is amazing. Thank you so much! It came up in my feed a short while ago but then disappeared and was a little hard to find after that (bad TH-cam, bad). Some of the things I searched that are relevant to this video are skirt pattern , how to make a skirt pattern, skirt pattern drafting, make any skirt, how to make any skirt, how to make skirt patterns, and skirt patterns. 😄😄 😉😉🥰 So glad I found it again. This is truly such great information on making any skirt or making any skirt pattern 😉 (got a couple more in for good measure).
Thank you Mariah, that was lot of hard work and mathematical. You have given me lots of knowledge of skirts pattern. I shall watch your video again and again to understand all my self. UK 💕🌸👗✂️😊
So I want to say THANK YOU! At first I was like hmmmmm…and then I said let me do the math first. So I got took out my measurements (already had them on a typed sheet of paper and sat and did the math for my waistline for ALL of the skirts! Woohoo! Next stop making the patterns…probably not for all but definitely for the 1/4 circle skirt. I’ve been sewing off and on. I really want to make some simple skirts for spring and summer. Thank you!
Wow you're the best in explaining and breaking it down!✨ I used to make my own patterns based from what I learned from a traditional seamstress when I was much younger, but it was ardous for every person I had to make new patterns for. But with a bird's eye view like this, this will make all the vertical and horizontal measurements involved in getting the right FIT for other styles so much easier to visualize from the start --- with the the math of it all (lol 😂) . Thanks for your tips 🪡! Liked 📐& Subscribed🧵!
For a first timer and using the hand stitching, this is really helpful. Im doing my daughter's costume, and i really need those measurements.. thanks alot.
The roly wheel tool is actually a marking tool. When I learned sew years ago, there was a type paper in many colors 10:27 that went along with the rolling wheel tool that was much like carbon paper. The carbon paper is placed under your pattern and roll across marking seam lines,darts etc.
I watched this video and it totally went over my head, BUT this being said, it is exactly what I needed. So I'll watch it again and again until I figure it out. Thank you so much! I love your work :)
Both very helpful and very intense to take in at the same time, but that's mostly because of the imperial measures 😅 Too many decimals, but luckily somebody in the comments converted it for me to cm, so I think I'll be able to use this!
Okay...now to watch again, slow down the video, do all the math in cm and make these patterns for me and my daughter. Thanks for sharing this, I greatly appreciate it.
Very helpful video! I never realised how the gathering-pleating made such a difference in the fullness. I'll surely apply this later in a project. I'm currently working on a 16-panel skirt of almost 1,5 circle. I think I will go for a 100% fitting since it's already so wide, lol. Yay math...
They should totally teach math eith cooking and sewing etc instead of actual math cause i wouldve 100% been able to get my math dyslexia brain to mesh with it.
I agree. Math can be so interesting if you have context for how it's actually useful. Without context it's just meaningless numbers on paper and no wonder kids hate it.
@@MariahPattie As a math/science teacher, I find my students struggle so much not understanding why it is so important to learn many of these concepts. I have used math I learned in chemistry class to help me with scaling recipes so many times.
And it would be more accurate. Math is a tool humans invented to make things and study the world. The study of math itself, and playing with symbols independent of the real world, is a secondary field. But we act like you need to learn algebra in the abstract to use it in chemistry, cooking, and creating, rather than teaching it how it was invented, which was to make creating easier.
And music! And art! Math is the just the language of the universe. It’s like learning a foreign language but only adjectives and verbs. Then not applying it in conversation. Remembering geometry from high school made so much more sense when applying it to my sewing.
There was a chemistry teacher who couldn't get the girls to understand chemistry. He radically changed how he taught it. He got the girls to make and manufacture a lipstick. The whole process from start to marketing and selling. The girls transformed. They were able to do the complex formulations necessary when the subject was taught this way.
I cannot do maths at all. I came in to the comments to see if there was any way of doing this that was easier and didn't involve complicated maths. It doesn't help that the imperial system is still being used in the US, when the rest of the world uses the metric system (centimetres etc.) I just don't understand why the whole business has to be so complicated. There must be an easier way.
For the folks that fear math. Just use centimetres. I PROMISE it’s easier. It’s not scary, and the decimals aren’t as weird. When using inches, how much are you loosing to round off 0.6187 or 0.29013 to the nearest fractal inch?
Centimetres and millimetres friends, this is what the system was built for lol
oh absolutely
Yeahhhh!!!!
YES! I always convert any measurements from imperial to metric. Bc ain´t nobody got time to look up what an eight of an inch is every time the measurement comes up.
Seriously saved me just now. Lol I was about to give up.
Team centimetres here too!
That feeling when your waist measurement is the same and you can just steal all of Mariah’s numbers and not have to do any maths at all 🥳 thanks Mariah!!
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Ditto! Much appreciated.
Woo hoo! Me too! Definitely gonna save this video
I'm trying to make a skirt as a gift to someone... That someone is called Maria, and has the same waist measurements as Mariah... That's an interesting coincidence
I've struck gold!
Fellow cm users!
Waist measurement is 72,5 cm and 1/4 circumferences are
100% = 18,1 cm
200% = 36,2 cm
300% = 54,3 cm
90°: r100 = 11,4; r200 = 22,9; r300 = 34,6
67,5°: r100 = 15,25; r200 = 30,5; r300 = 46
45°: r100 = 22,9; r200 = 46; r300 = 69,2
22,5°: r100 = 46; r200 = 92; r300 = 138,1
Much thanks for the video! It´s going to be so useful!
I just gave up on trying to understand the actual numbers after the first pattern iteration 😭
Oh thank you so much for converting it! :)
Yay! Trying to convert things as I watched was hurting my brain
Thanks for the conversion!
As someone with what actually turns out to be identical waist measurements, I wish I had seen this before I struggled with a circle calculator 😆
As a maths teacher I salute your calculations, especially the fleeting use of pi. And I love the chart! So nice and organised. Though as a Brit I despair at inches and all those decimal equivalents of fractions
I am old enough to recall when the conversion to base-10 was halted in the midst of my third-grade math lesson. The principal walked in the classroom and called the whole thing off. True story.
Im confused .. if her waist is 28.5in wouldn't her circumference be 89.49. My math :
28.5 ÷2 = Radius 14.25
14.25 ×6.28 = 89.49 circumference.
Please teach this as a practical and applied math to your students. Its gonna be helpful for those who aspire to be designers in the future
@@mirlo4412Why multiply by 6.28? Where did that number come from?
This is great! Saves my brain a lot of agony.
Random comment now: My mom (born 1932) had an 8th grade education and was very "math disabled" and yet she sewed her whole life. She made countless bridesmaids', homecoming & prom dresses, etc. If you asked her to work a math problem on paper she literally had an anxiety attack yet she could figure out how to draft anything. Not sure what her methods were but now that I've started sewing I'm in awe of what she accomplished.
For the 3/4 circle skirt math, an easier way to find the circumference measurement is to divide the full circle skirt circumference by 0.75. So 28.5/0.75=38, 57/0.75=76, 85.5/0.75=114. I find that if I can do less steps with the math I'm less likely to make a mistake and thought I would mention a simpler method. Hopefully it helps.
i believe it would be multiplying by 0,75 ;)
@@gosiamalaczek Nope it's divide not multiply, the reason that it's divide is because your going " I know that 0.75 of the total is equal to 28.5 (original circumference) or written mathematically X * 0.75 = 28.5 therefore to solve for X you need to divide both sides of the equation by 0.75 to end up with the final equation of X=28.5 / 0.75. So 38 = 28.5/0.75. Also if you still think its multiply this is what happens if you multiply it, 28.5*0.75 = 21.375. I'm an accountant, I do math for a living. You also could have just checked it.
@@maidenrohina funny that you are getting so snippy on someone who tried to nicely "correct" you (even if they were wrong) when you're on here yourself correcting Mariah. I don't see a need to correct the person who responded to you by being snarky.
@@funkypunkypine I understand your comment and can see where your coming from. I personally didn't think my reply was snarky I was just genuinely trying to explain why it wasn't multiply, why it was divide and the reason that it is divide. I see that the last sentence could be taken as snarky, but all I can say is that it wasn't meant that way and that I can now see that not all Australian mannerisms and humour translate well into text. I also wasn't correcting Mariah. There is nothing wrong with the way she calculated it and it gives you the correct answer. I was merely trying to show that there was a "simpler" method to calculate the answer, particularly for people who may struggle or dislike lots of math and therefore may have been put off trying this because of the "confusing" math that was needed. If I could provide a simpler way for more people to try making patterns that's all I wanted to do.
@@gosiamalaczek the confusion is: What is meant by 3/4 Circle Skirt? If we wanted to calculate 3/4 of the waist measurement (Full Circle Circumference), then yes, the equation would be C = Cfull x 0.75 [circumference = (full skirt circumference x 0.75)]. However, that is not what 3/4 Circle Skirt means.
For the Full Circle Skirt, the waist measurement = the "full circle" = the Circumference.
For the Half Circle Skirt, the waist measurement = only half of "the circle," so circumference = 2 x Full Circle Circumference.
For the 3/4 Circle Skirt, the waist measurement = only 3/4, or 75%, "of the circle," i.e. 4/3 x Full Circle Circumference. One option is to 1st, divide by 3 -- now we know what 1 quarter of the measurement is -- 2nd, multiple by 4 so that you've accounted for all 4 quarters. Now we have the measurement for the new Circumference. This is the same as multiplying by 4/3 [multiply by 4, divide by 3] because in this case it doesn't matter if step 1 or 2 comes first.
Or, you can simply divide the full circle measurement by 0.75 as @maidenrohina suggested. They show the algebra below [btw, dividing by 0.75, i.e. dividing by 3/4, = multiplying by 4/3].
My brain checked out once the math started, but i admire the amount of time you put into this!
I thought that was only me
Me, too. She talks fast and zipped through the calculations, and I got lost.
I wondered if the video had been speeded up. The math took me back to my highschool algebra teachers, both of them mentally ill nuns. So I had to bow out . Too bad, because I would love to know how to make a circle skirt.
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Nope. Absolutely nope.🙄
Mine checked out when the imperial system started. It makes this so needlessly complicated.
You're literally the only person I've found on TH-cam who not only explains the math, but in a way math dyslexics can understand. ❤️
This is a pretty good idea. I make a lot of circle skirts, and always just measure it out on the fabric. I mostly can just never be bothered making a paper pattern, but if I pose it to myself as a project in its own right I can make a few that I'm most likely to use and then dont have to go to the trouble again
The first 30 seconds had my engineer side hooked 😂
Thank you, this was both satisfying and informative to watch.
That rolling tool is called a Tracing wheel 😄
Well done video! I enjoyed watching it a lot
haha i knew somebody would have the answer 😂
I have the same tracing wheel from my home economic class of 1972!
@@jewelgaither1504 me too
Tracing wheels are customarily used with carbon paper. You can buy "no wax" carbon paper specifically for dressmaking purposes.
@@Bad_Housekeeping I learned that marking method from my 1960's home ec class 😅 I don't always use it today but I love it for darts. I see vintage tracing paper on eBay all the time although I don't know if it's still good or not 🤔
I went to school for pattern drafting and this was so much easier to follow than the way we learned 😅😂 thanks for the refresher!
After watching this, I think there should be a program or tool where you can put in how much fabric you have and what your waist measurements are, and then the tool gives you all the possible options of % of fullness and skirt length that you could make with that amount of fabric.
I wish i knew enough about programming or math to do this, but unfortunately i don't. It would be super neat tho!
Maybe even have options for putting in any of these measurements (waist, fullness, length, total fabric used/needed) and it gives out all the options for the ones you left open. I'd love to see all my options of what i can do with the amount of fabric i have etc.
This video was a great visualisation of how all of this works, thank you!!
Oh YES! A Girlfriend wants me to make her a wrap skirt. This is the fourth video I've watched and the only one that really laid out all possible styles with the measurements.
I'm thinking she's going to need to buy a sheet as fabric rather than my trying to piece together anything. But I definitely will try to use this charting to do it correctly the first time
I love a good practical math application, that whole grid set up you did was VERY satisfying, and very helpful! This is definitely the kind of reference I want to keep track of
I've been sewing for years and made circle skirts before but not often enough that I don't have to relearn the process each time. I found a fancy calculator programme on the internet but I wasn't impressed. Then I remembered this video. Thank you Mariah, this is so clearly explained that I made the skirt and it fit perfectly.
I love the full explanations on skirts! Really makes sense when you show the patterns so clearly. Only thing that hurts my brain is the inches as a person who uses centimeters I lost what measurement was which as I couldn’t follow the numbers but I’ll get them eventually. I absolutely loved the pictures showing what pattern made what. Thank you.
Absolutely right. Throughout all Latin America what we use is centimeters. Perhaps yards are mentioned when buying material, but that’s about it. No inches whatsoever anywhere!
Inches are actually pretty simple. An inch is 1 inch. A half inch is 1/2 or 0.5 inches. A quarter inch is 1/4 or 0.25 inches. And so on and so forth. We don’t constantly convert between units like I’ve seen metric users do, so all the numbers are just measurements in the same unit. Same thing you can do with cm, but with a different starting number since it’s a differently sized unit. Hope this helps :D
@@ray-ee5pb Yes! Thank you! I never thought of dividing an inch so clearly. It has been a struggle when siddenly the person says that they use a certain part of an inch for this project and I need to stop my train of thought to calculate the amount, but really your descrition made me realize that a clearly written guide for different messurements of an inch would help me so much!
This is such a rookie mistake for someone who's been sewing as long as I have, but I literally just realised why all my circle skirts have turned out a little bit too big in the waist. I never deduct the seam allowance! I always work out my radius and then cut along that line, so then obviously once I've sewn it, it's half an inch bigger, which on a curve like this feels massive. I really think I'm going to make a paper pattern now and just get it over with, I always argue that it's more work to create the pattern than it is to just draw it on the fabric, but it's really not. Great video!
I just wrote a comment about always messing up my waists and…. You just blew my mind, I think.
Oh that's helped me...thank you for pointing out the seam line! 👍
The last of your explanation here reminded me of the argument to write an outline to my stories. Like many others, I just wanted to write.
This is the most informative and pleasant sewing tutorial I have seen in YEARS! You’re awesome, thank you!!!
I didn't realise I was looking for a video like this after Morgan Donner's 'Shenanigan pants' video, when I didn't understand how she turned a circle skirt pattern into an Edwardian panelled skirt!
This will probably make it easier 😊
But, if by any chance you are considering making a video about how to adapt this pattern into a 5-10 panelled one with fishtail gathers, for example, then that would be excellent for very many fans of Edwardian fashion, who would like the drafting process simplified 😌
(Think Bernadette walking skirt, Morgan Donner shenanigan pants, etc ...)
Thank you as always for your hard work and your investing form of mentorship, Mariah!
10/10 this is the most helpful tutorial I have seen. I just cut my skirt out, and it’s absolutely perfect. Thank you!!!
I am not a math person, so thank you for making this so clear. This was very helpful. And a great idea to get the math over with so future you has set patterns ready to use.
I'm glad it made sense! I was trying to make it as clear as possible without being too terribly repetitive 😅
My cheater method for 1/4 skirt - I have a 15” difference between waist and hips - is fit to hips and toss on an elastic or stretchy fabric waist. It turns slightly gathered, but it works. Can also dart the excess, but I’m lazy.
I do a similar approach for my circle skirts. Makes them super full and easy to throw on.
@@bridgetthewench I do it for most circle skirts, since I’m lazy. More that since I live in stretchy waist pants (scrubs) I go for anything with a stretchy waist.
BRILLIANT! Thank you x 3, both for your fearlessness of math, but also for your no-nonsense presentation. I'm new to sewing and your chart was an immense help to me. You made the calculations make sense. I'm off to attempt my first 3/4 circle skirt!
I’ve now been sewing circle skirts for two years and finally am attempting to branch from full circle to the other sizes, and I have screenshots from October 2022 of this video I always fall back on. Thank you ❤
Two seconds in and I already love it
THANK YOU!!!!! This the first time that I have understood the math behind the circle skirt! Love the chart!
Figuring out what math to do is far more difficult for me then the actual math. I have saved this video.
You are a sewing goddess!
Thank you!🥰
After watching that twice, second time following along with my own measurements, I think I might finally understand how to make these myself. Switching between metric and imperial has addled my brain, the conversion chart for fractions to decimal might help with that a smidge. In the absence of any large pieces of paper I'll try using old newspapers, which we have in abundance. Thank you
Christmas or birthday wrapping paper, sold on rolls and frequently discounted, has a lovely blank side on the back. I use that for pattern making. Some even has a grid on the back, to make it easier to cut!
This definitely supports the idea that inches really are meant to just stay fractions. Once you get smaller than a quarter the decimals get so fiddly, but the fractions stay nice and intuitive. Shame calculators insist on only working with decimals. So thank you for that conversion chart!
Weeeell let's just use metric system and this wouldn't be an issue to begin with 🤷♀️
The TI-15 keeps them as fractions, in case you want a calculator that does.
@@Judoka26 Ah yes, because saying 712.5 instead of 7.125 would be so much better.
That serrated-edge rolling tool is simply called a Tracing Wheel, traditionally used in sewing garments. Placing colored "tracing" paper between the paper pattern and the fabric to transfer pattern markings to the fabric. Old-school but nifty. 🙂
I love the point you made about saving paper (for future projects) by making a bunch of templates up front! Spitballing here, but I could also see hacking a tool that speeds up drafting by putting a ruler on a pivot in the protractor's center (and I'm pretty sure I've seen some architecture drafting tool like this): 1) set the angle of the skirt piece on the protractor; 2) set the waist radius on the ruler by attaching a pen, then sweep the ruler through the whole angle; 3) move the pen out on the ruler to waist radius + skirt length, then sweep again for the hem
This was a genuinely helpful video! I've done a 3/4 circle and went though doing all the math, but the visualization of the different waist lengths for gathers vs pleats was really excellent. Thank you!
Very nice, and informative video.
I am already in the process of making a 3/4 circle, using 3, 1/4 pieces, and putting pockets in the 2, and then obviously a zipper in the 3rd.
I figured out that my waist measurement devided by 3, then multiply by 4, gives me a theoretical waist for a full circle, so I drafted my 1/4 pattern, and cut 3 pieces!
Thats great for you but could you guide me how to make the waist meaurements for a gathered a line... Like the one on the video
Thank you for sharing your skills. Very clear and accurate. Specially as there are so many people that claims to know about sewing and just do such a bad job. Very grateful for your time and effort in putting this together.
I’ve been sewing as a hobby for 50 years: upholstery, bedding, quilting, garment construction. .. This video? Brilliant and concise. I love watching bright things and meticulously constructed things… might be owed to a degree in Accounting/BCIS/Math, but I think it’s you. 😀. Thank You. 👍🇺🇸🇨🇱
As a guy who is probably never going to sew a skirt I think this was an excellent video; your math was well presented, the scaling from A-line to 300% perfectly described, and your rationale for design decisions logically presented. I'm not math-phobic, but definitely don't use much in the sewing (bags, packs, bike bags, boating stuff) as I might. Thanks.
OMG...I always wanted to do this!
And make a series of mockups, to finally, ultimately figure out, which cut and length suits me best.
I love to see all the different patterns together + the pictures so I can imagine better what the skirt made from each is going to look like. I bet it is going to be so nice to just be able to pull out one of these patterns instead of having to draft them from scrath when starting a new project!
Thank you Mariah for a brief but brilliant encapsulation of all you need to understand about flared skirt patterns. It comes thick and fast, but is so well organised. I'll need to watch four or five times with pauses to take it all in, and then I'll know! Just bought some lovely summer fabric, so here I go with a half circle skirt gathered 200% at the waist.
Thank you! This is a brilliant summary. My skirt sewing has just gotten easier, lots easier.
The A line skirt with the gathered hem is actually really awesome. I made one from a 50's vintage pattern once and I loved it. Thank you, this is a wonderful, wonderful tool.
Labai ačiū Jums už įdomią ir naudingą pamoką! Linkiu Jums sėkmės ir džiuginančių naujų atradimų!🙂🌷❤️
This actually made the MOST sense to me of ANY sewing video I’ve watched!! Thank you so much!! Fellow lefty ✨
The most concise and effective approach I have encountered. Fabulous teaching method! Thank you!
It is so nice to see another lefthanded crafty. I looks so natural, cheers.
Ugh this was such a satisfying video to watch, thank you. I love maths and sewing 🤣 I really enjoyed how you showed the skirts on the body too
Love your "pattern weights"!!!
one of the best things you can invest in - are those pattern foldable cardboard boards with the circles already marked on them, and if you know how to use it - can make anything.
ooo interesting. I haven't seen those.
I would love to see this same type of math for a fan style skirt that might be used for a Victorian/Edwardian walking skirt. Thanks for your clear explanation of circle skirts it was great!
it's actually pretty simple. the back is a flared skirt like these. You can make it wider at the top for more gathers, and wider at the bottom for more fullness. The front is basically a fitted a-line or half circle skirt. The main difference is that a Victorian skirt would have been worn over a corset and padding, so there'd be an extreme hourglass shape, so you need to add curves and darts to fit it over your hips like I showed with the a-line skirt diagram.
@@MariahPattie Thank you so much! This is the simplest/clearest explanation I’ve gotten for a drafting a fan skirt. I only have so much of my nice wool fabric and want to make the fullest skirt I can but bought patterns are not exactly designed to minimize waste or to maximize a smaller amount of fabric then what they call for.
@Mongoly8 see Bernadette Banner's channel. I think she has made the sort of skirt you're looking for.
I took a sewing class and we made a circle skirt but no maths, just sort of guessing... I was left thinking "There's got to be a better way to do this".
This is the better way, thank you so much!
I have been looking for a simple skirt pattern...n this blew my mind...i can literally have 12 patterns in one go! I've saved this video and will DEF be trying it this week!
Wow...this is the best video I've ever seen! THANK YOU
Thank you so very much for this wonderful tutorial. I just watching videos on how to draft sewing patterns. Your video is an excellent way to understand how this type of skirt works. Thank you for all the math, it makes complete sense and I'm loving it. Oh and by the way, that thingamajig is called a tracing wheel 😊
This video is excellent. I wish we had videos like this when I was making ballroom dancing ballgowns. We used DOUBLE circle skirts, maybe more to get that beautiful twirl effect on the dance floor and NO GATHERS allowed at the waist. Getting that accurate waist measurement is so important.
This video is what I have been searching for! Thank you.
I just made my first skirt this morning using this video and I'm so proud of it! Thank you for sharing!
I'm proud of you!☺️👏👏👏🤩
Thank you so much for this!!! It’s very helpful and I am really really really happy you made it so simple. A year ago I decided to just wear skirts but it’s hard to find nice affordable skirts everywhere so I decided to retake sewing. But Im terrible with patterns and finding one that fits me is hard so this will make my life better! 🙏🏼❤️
I have the same waist circumference as you so I can use all your math 🥰
Thank you for this video! It’s a game changer!
My brain is absolutely fried trying to follow this right now 😂I can't reconcile the whole half/full/quarter circle = fuller skirts in my mind. I think I may need more coffee. And a notepad.
Got confused for a moment but when you gave the math check on the 3/4 patterned the logic came together for me. Thank you
This is such an helpful video and love how you actually cut all the patterns to visualize it.
At the same time it was very confusing since I only learned the metric system and the imperial system always leaves me puzzeled 😂
Thank you for making this a sort-of compare and contrast situation, it really helped me understand the logic behind the different kinds of skirts!
I have to say you have one of the most understandable explanations and are very easy to listen to, thanks a dozen Mariah! PS: I use big rubble-sacs as a pattern sheet, doesnt rip and is see through in case you want to match prints! u should give it a try!
Thank you for this video! I am taking on the challenge of making my own wedding dress and have very minimal knowledge and this really helped me understand the different concepts of skirts and why they are the way they are. Again thank you!!!!
This is exactly what I have been looking for over the past couple weeks. This is perfect! I can't thank you enough. Really appreciate you for this video!
Mariah I cannot thank you enough for making this accessible to someone like me who cannot do math to save my life. You make it so engaging and give so many pictures which makes it actually understandable. I kept thinking while watching this video that we ought to teach math with sewing and cooking instead of just numbers on a board!! Cheers to you:)
This is going to be super helpful - just as soon as I can translate from inches to centimetres/millimetres. Thank you for a very clear explanation. It's also brilliant that you spent the time patterning the variations so that when you want to make a skirt for a project you just grab the one you want and off you go. I shall have to do this and will be having your video on hand so I know what to do.
3:21 i love how you give visuals and charts lol
"CW: Math"
You get me
This was really helpful, even if only to see how a skirt that looks hard to understand can actually be figure out and patterned using one of these options. Thank you for making this video!
I've literally been holding off on making circle skirts for years because even though they're supposedly "simple", the circle skirt calculators I've used in the past have all just given me a warning saying that my measurements don't work on a "standard width fabric", so I should consider making a shorter skirt... I couldn't find information on how many more yards of fabric I'd need to buy to make up for the lack of width, or what shape I should be cutting out instead (since the folding method wouldn't work), how and where to cut it, etc. I'd just given up on it until I found your video 🙏
You explain everything so thoroughly, and it's actually so much simpler than I expected, thank you so much for your hard work! 💜
I applied to college to be a math major, which didn't end up working out.... but now that I'm learning sewing, I've found it soooo satisfying to get to use that part of my brain again! I'm happy to see some math nerd representation in the sewing community, instead of the "ugh math" attitude most people have :)
I like the maths. It makes things repeatable.
Hi Mariah - Watching this video, my mind is going to "What Lovely Skirts I could make!!!" I have to "pull back," as I haven't even gotten to sewing my 1st Vintage Kitchen Apron yet!!! Thx for being an Inspiration!! Beautifully done!!! ♡♡♡♡
Thank you so much. I love numbers and charts. I'll be sharing this video with acquaintances that say "you like to sew, you need to make me a full skirt, it should be easy" :) .
Thanks but you lost me when you didn't explain how to actually use the patterns, i.e. how many times you would have to fold the fabric for each pattern. Is it 4 layers for each one? I suppose I am too much of a newbie to follow. I also don't understand how the waist measurement doesn't need to factor in the seam allowance, or why you said you actually don't need to put seam allowances at the top.
This is wonderful and yes, you did loose me halfway through. But I'll keep trying to get it because what a great idea! Having these on hand would make sewing a project for yourself so much easier and give more motivation for getting started.
Thank you! Quick, energetic, very pleasing to listen to and watch! Good job!
This video is amazing. Thank you so much! It came up in my feed a short while ago but then disappeared and was a little hard to find after that (bad TH-cam, bad). Some of the things I searched that are relevant to this video are skirt pattern , how to make a skirt pattern, skirt pattern drafting, make any skirt, how to make any skirt, how to make skirt patterns, and skirt patterns. 😄😄 😉😉🥰 So glad I found it again. This is truly such great information on making any skirt or making any skirt pattern 😉 (got a couple more in for good measure).
WHEW! Math! Looks good, makes sense. This will be played slowly and paused often when the patterns get drafted.
This is legitimately great instruction. Saving this to my list as I know it will come in handy soon!
Thank you so much, you made circular skirt calculation so easy.
Thank you Mariah, that was lot of hard work and mathematical. You have given me lots of knowledge of skirts pattern. I shall watch your video again and again to understand all my self. UK 💕🌸👗✂️😊
This is fun! I teach pattern making to friends, and I can dial up your video to clarify my in instructions. Thank you Mariah.
This is the only skirt making video which made sense and is so simple to understand for a newbie like me.... Thank you so much ❤
This is DA BEST explanation I ever saw.
So I want to say THANK YOU! At first I was like hmmmmm…and then I said let me do the math first. So I got took out my measurements (already had them on a typed sheet of paper and sat and did the math for my waistline for ALL of the skirts! Woohoo! Next stop making the patterns…probably not for all but definitely for the 1/4 circle skirt. I’ve been sewing off and on. I really want to make some simple skirts for spring and summer. Thank you!
Wow you're the best in explaining and breaking it down!✨ I used to make my own patterns based from what I learned from a traditional seamstress when I was much younger, but it was ardous for every person I had to make new patterns for. But with a bird's eye view like this, this will make all the vertical and horizontal measurements involved in getting the right FIT for other styles so much easier to visualize from the start --- with the the math of it all (lol 😂) . Thanks for your tips 🪡! Liked 📐& Subscribed🧵!
Thank you for explaining this, it was super helpful and answered some questions I didn’t know I had!
For a first timer and using the hand stitching, this is really helpful. Im doing my daughter's costume, and i really need those measurements.. thanks alot.
Checks Stash.... finds fabric for skirt.... Ferb I know what we're going to do today!
Just made a chart with my measurements! Now on to figure out what skirt to make.
This is genius 🙌🏻 I'll have to watch this several times more but I mean this has helped me alot already!
Aaaaand I've saved this because skirts are the way of life. Thank you!
The roly wheel tool is actually a marking tool. When I learned sew years ago, there was a type paper in many colors 10:27 that went along with the rolling wheel tool that was much like carbon paper. The carbon paper is placed under your pattern and roll across marking seam lines,darts etc.
I watched this video and it totally went over my head, BUT this being said, it is exactly what I needed. So I'll watch it again and again until I figure it out. Thank you so much! I love your work :)
Such advantageous timing for this to come up in my suggestions! I'm currently patterning a half circle skirt.
Both very helpful and very intense to take in at the same time, but that's mostly because of the imperial measures 😅 Too many decimals, but luckily somebody in the comments converted it for me to cm, so I think I'll be able to use this!
Okay...now to watch again, slow down the video, do all the math in cm and make these patterns for me and my daughter. Thanks for sharing this, I greatly appreciate it.
Hi dear, would you mind telling me how many times you folded the fabric? I'm a little confused even after watching the whole video 4 times...
Very helpful video! I never realised how the gathering-pleating made such a difference in the fullness. I'll surely apply this later in a project. I'm currently working on a 16-panel skirt of almost 1,5 circle. I think I will go for a 100% fitting since it's already so wide, lol. Yay math...
This is giving me the math motivation I need to pattern the 3/4 gathered skirt I've been wanting to make!!