I’ve found so far that skirts are pretty fun! Personally I don’t wear them often, but a lot of characters from video games and television shows do!

Most of the time you don’t have to sew a skirt, they are an item sold quite often in the Summer and again, can be found easily in Good Will or so on, especially if you’re looking for odd patterns.

Mina Ashido from Boku no Hero Academia- a 2018 cosplay

Most of the time I just make circle skirts, such as this one and one I showed in a previous post in my Nora from RWBY cosplay. Circle skirts are quick and easy, or at least I think, because it’s literally just a circle pattern you cut out. This video by Annika Victoria is the video I always follow when I want to make a circle skirt.

An image I found on Pinterest

Fun Fact, I used a circle skirt pattern for the cape on my Wirt cosplay, so they aren’t just for skirts! Being creative sure is fun!

Wirt from Over The Garden Wall in my 2015 cosplay- still one of my favorite cosplays

However, there are other types of skirts, so many that when I look up different types of skirts, there are pictures that claim to have all the types but so do other posts that have types the other picture didn’t have and so on!

PopOptiq has a list of different skirt types, many I have never heard of and wish to some day sew myself!

Picture taken from PopOptic

Other Easy Skirt Types

  • Bluprint has an easy skirt tutorial, you need to buy the pattern, but it’s called a rae skirt so if you really like it I suggest to do some digging if you want it for free.
  • Fabricdotcom just has an easy skirt tutorial, just using two pieces of fabric you sew together along with an elastic for the waist.
  • MADE Everyday has a good tutorial on how to add pockets into your skirt- which is very nice and something that I want to do more often!
  • Angela Clayton makes a rectangle skirt which I’ve made in the past but haven’t attempted again in a while. I really like the look of them
  • Joyfully makes a gathered skirt tutorial, something I have done similar to in the past back when I didn’t even attempt to watch tutorials and just went for it like a fool! I recommend watching videos and just getting practice.

So I’m not listing all the types of skirts, these are just ones I thought would be easy to start out with. If you have other skirts you want to try I recommend looking at the list and looking those up specifically or maybe when Joanns opens up again go look at the pattern books they have and purchase a pattern!