How to make a circle skirt in CLO3D

all right our next sample is the full circle skirt um when you look in your book and you'll see when we're done drafting it it's literally a huge circle when it's laying flat so this larger circle would be the hem and then the smaller circle is the waist and if you watch the video of me drafting it by hand you will see that you have to figure out your waist measurement you start with your waist measurement which in a circle is called your circumference and once you know your circumference you need to figure out your radius and then by hand we just use a radius measurement to actually draw it you know the all the way around with a ruler but luckily in khloe if you have your circumference that's really all you need i thought it might be a good idea maybe you guys should just do a little google search if you're not like really familiar with this it's been a while since you did geometry um here's the circumference just the outside of the circle which in our case will be the waist measurement um and then the diameter is straight across and that's actually important for us in chloe because i'm going to start with the waist measurement but then i need to draft a way bigger circle so that bigger circle is going to measure the length of my skirt so i'm going to shoot for 20 inches so i have 20 inches on the left seam i'll also have 20 inches on the right seam which is 40 inches and then i got to add the diameter in here so i'll have to figure out the diameter in order to do it but khloe makes it really easy which is great also if you read your book you'll find out real quick if you read it um that when you are drafting the um circumference around the waist because you're cutting your fabric on the bias it's going to stretch out super fast so they are saying like let's say your waist is ends up being 28 inches of what you're trying to draft they say subtract a full inch for stretch um and then after that after it's drafted they even take it in more they bring it or they lower oh actually i guess by lowering it they're actually making it bigger so never mind but anyways just note that if your waist is 28 inches you're going to want to draw something smaller so it stays on um and also your book to help you figure out the radius thing they have this little fancy chart to help you do the math so you don't actually have to do like a pie formula although it is kind of fun and cool with pie formula but anyways i digress let's get back on track um i want to also bring your attention that there's a waistband and most circle skirts have waistbands because another thing with a circle skirt it does get heavy because there's so much fabric at the hem and your fabric it's going to stretch at the waist and sag and it's just going to stretch out and fall off so um if you don't have a hem or i mean a waistband you're definitely going to need some kind of facing on the inside or like a bias tape to hold it tight so i think when we draft it in close we should add just like a one inch waistband just to kind of hold it um as well so okay so let's go to chloe i pulled up an avatar i think she's like size 10 curvy maybe but to get started i need to figure out the circumference of her waist um because that's where the skirt's going to go so i can use this measuring tape tool edit measure avatar okay i'm going to click it there we are and then we see these little lines and okay so since the update for me for some reason it's kind of hard to click them but normally you just click it and it'll tell you okay you've got but you really have to wait till it gets highlighted there we go see how it was blue then you click when it's black and you click it won't work it kind of takes me a minute just so you know so her waist is 29 inches i'm rounding down i'm ignoring the six um whatever um so 29 inches is her waist so i need to make a circle with a circumference of 29 inches so that's gonna be a pattern piece i'll use the ellipse and i'm just going to click once so here we go this is what i like about clothes if you have your diameter radius or circumference it'll make a circle i have circumference and i want it 29 but you know what i know that's gonna be too big so i'm gonna subtract an inch so i'm gonna say 28 inches actually and um i'm gonna say okay okay so like i said i wanted it to be 20 inches long in length so i need to figure out the diameter if this is 20 whatever this diameter is plus 20 it's gonna be 40 something so if i click one more time and i put in my circumference again of 28 which is the same as the last circle it'll tell me what the diameter is look at that it says this a point it did the math for me i didn't have to do a pi formula calculation so um so i put in that and then i just know i have to add 40 inches so i'm going to make it 48 and i'll say okay cool so i have my two big circles i think that's the hardest part that's where we do our math so anyways now i need to align them so i'm going to select both and then to align you just right click and align comes up i'm going to want to center them and then i'm also going to want to uh do the middle now you'll notice my big circle covers a little one which is kind of annoying so if you right click you can change the order as well so i sent that to the back so i wish right now i could click the right one and right click and say cut but it's not there and it's because it's a pattern piece so i need to change this to be an internal line so if i right click i can say clone as internal shape and then i'll just click somewhere on the big pattern piece so now this internal shape is actually on the big circle um now i need it to be aligned as well and when i right click the internal shape i don't have that awesome like align tool so i kind of just need to line it up to the other pattern piece that i already aligned okay cool so now if i right click i don't really know what i'm right clicking be honest with you i don't know if that's the internal line or the pattern if i right click i can kind of see that i can't the cut choice isn't there so i'm thinking i clicked my pattern probably so i'm just going to move it yeah i did i don't need that pattern i'm just going to delete it so now i can click my internal line and if i right click i can say cut and that way i just cut a circle and i can delete it i don't need it now this is it this is a circle skirt but your customers are not going to be able to get into it without a seam and a zipper and all that good stuff so we need to add a seam so i'm just going to do one straight across which will make this skirt two panels so to do that i'm going to use our internal line tool and let's see i'm holding option to pan i'm going to click one time here i'm going to hold shift i'm going to click over here and i'm going to say return okay so i'm going to tell you right now that if we were to select this line i can right click and i can say cut and sew but it might not work because you first have to extend trim and add point and that's just something i've learned from using khloe so for me i'm kind of just in the habit whenever i have an internal line to always extend trim and add point so if you skip that you'll see that cut and sew is probably going to be funky so do that say to pattern outline so we're going to do that first and then when i right click on this line cut and sew is going to work perfectly great there it is i made two pattern pieces so my pattern is actually done um i could play with the waist shape like the book suggested by dropping it a quarter inch but i'd rather throw it on avatar for a fit before i decide to do that um i think the hard part now is to place it on our avatar i tried a couple things i tried just like lining it up and sewing it and what happened is that the seams above her arms so i just like yanked it down um but i think a better way might be to use our pins so i'm going to go ahead and do that so let's see here um okay i'm going to select the front i guess this will be the back let's put the front where i want it i'm gonna hit the number two to kind of get a center read i'm gonna hit four for the sight seam i'm gonna bring it a little closer okay cool now i'll click the back and let's see here for the back i think i'm going to rotate it yeah awesome and i guess bring it down over here i'm going to hit four no six nope five no seven eight eight so i can see the back view and line that guy up two i'm gonna hit two again i think that's good so i'm gonna put some pins in um right now so we need that tool for my pens i think it's underneath here there it is pin like a little box i guess is fine so just pinning center front i'm gonna do the same to the back um so that way when i drape it that's not going to fall to the ground because of gravity and then another i'm going to simulate just to show you what's going to happen what's going to happen is that the side seams are going to sew and our arms going to be stuck okay so let's go ahead and do that right now so you can see that yeah so um what i did last night was i kind of just yanked it and it sort of worked i like ripped it anyways i don't really need to do that i think a better thing to do actually is um with the sewing tool i can right click and i can say um deactivate sewing and then look at falls yay and then i can do it again to oh okay you know maybe i'm gonna um unstimulate real quick and i'm gonna do it to the other side deactivate sewing and then i'll i'm going to simulate again and let's see what happens don't do both let me just double check i might not have click you i'm going gonna deactivate sewing and i'm also gonna oh i don't have to deactivate this one okay so i guess i reactivate it without even realizing it okay so here we go i'm gonna re-simulate i can stop right there if i want and i can reactivate it i think that's easier than like yanking it to be honest with you two four let's look at this okay so let's simulate again cool okay so um i could deactivate the pins i am worried it might be a little big it's going to fall off and stretch out so i do want to make a waistband um that's going to fit her so to do that i'm just going to draft a rectangle and i said her waist was 29 inches so maybe i'll just make the rectangle 29 inches exactly i guess i could make it a little snugger but let's just start with 29 and i'll just make it one inch wide i'll say okay um okay so now i'm going to place this on my avatar [Music] let's see i'll hit number two i'm gonna pull out my arrangement points so it'll help me like wrap it around her there we are but i kinda i think i want the side seam i don't want the seam in the back so i'm going to have to um i'm going to get rid of her arrangement points i'm going to click this guy i'm going to hit two four okay and i'm gonna rotate it okay let's see if that looks good too get this back on huh uh i think that's good um okay so i'm gonna so one thing i tried to do earlier and i won't make you guys do right now but there's this really cool new tulle auto sewing i tried to use it to see if it wouldn't know how to sew the waistband to the skirt it didn't work for me that's okay i'm still going to keep practicing and trying it so for now i'm just going to manually um tell it how to sew the waistband together so i'm going to start with just sewing a little the waist to itself there we are and you know i think i'm going to simulate let's see what that looks like on her yeah cool okay so now it's on her it's not to sew it to the skirt i do realize the skirt is smaller than the waistband so um so the waistband's 29 inches the skirt i kind of forgot maybe it's like 28 inches i'm not even sure especially if you ended up fitting it and changing it a little so um i'm just gonna sew half of it i guess so let's so to do that um first i want to know where i'm starting where is this on the girl there's right here oh i did not mean to do that sorry i'm gonna try to select right here there if i select right here what is that okay yeah and then where's this part okay good yeah so i'm gonna start with the sewing tool i'm gonna use the free sewing i'm gonna start here at the bottom and i wanted to sew exactly half so i distribute the fullness of the skirt evenly so half of 29 is 14 and a half right so i could try to eyeball it but i think it's easier if i just right click and i just type in 14.5 say okay and then okay i want to make sure oh gosh where are you which one is that yeah okay so then i want to sew here all the way cool you can see that blue dot shows that it's smaller that's okay it'll just have to ease it together i'm going to go to you oh did i do that backwards okay i don't know what i just did there let's try that one more time oh did i not finish this guy oh i guess i have to click it and i didn't click it okay okay maybe i'll give it a minute did that work are we happy yes it looks good okay so now i'm gonna do the other side 14 and a half and i'll continue sewing here and i hope i did that right let's take a look at my seam lines it looks like the stitching looks good on the front and off looks good on the back see i'm good so now i have to get rid of the pins um and if you kind of forget how to do that i was like messing around like oh yeah i kind of forgot what i do you have to right click on the avatar i was right clicking on the pattern and that didn't really work i was in this edit pen tool so if i right click oh gosh you know it's not even there anymore oh here if i pick a pattern what if i select a pattern i don't know why this part is not very intuitive to me uh delete all pins yay thank you and i did it from the front in the back cool so now i'm ready to go ahead and simulate yay okay so two uh you can see it's kind of a little crooked on her maybe it is a little big i'll bring this up a little higher kind of fit it on her put her hem is straight that's pretty cool oh yeah it was dipping in the back so yeah it's definitely too big i'm probably gonna have to tighten the waistband a little bit so what if i just did that right now um okay let's see if i can hmm maybe if i just change the length i wonder if i can do both i've never tried doing both at the same time let's see if this will work right click change length no that's okay okay so let's do this right click change length oh what do you think a quarter inch and i'll do it to both sides that might be too much but i'm gonna say oh yeah i'm gonna say 28.7 five and where is that oh i don't know which way it's doing what does it cancel hold on i need to look at my pattern so i know okay there we go right click change link ah there we are okay 28.75 okay so it's bringing it in that way i'll say okay i want to do the same at the top 28.75 okay oh what did i do actually that's okay and then i'm going to right click and do it again change length this time i'm going to say 28.5 and i'll choose uh oh i should have done both duh so live and learn end okay and then i'll do the same here change length 28.5 i definitely did that the hard way because i think both might be new from the update okay cool anyways let's simulate that okay um we could pull off our fit map if we want give it a little look yeah that's tight on here so there we go that's our circle skirt you keep playing around with fit if you want um also when you do this skirt there's probably interfacing in it so it's not a bad idea maybe to even strengthen it maybe that's something we should do let's see here oh and simulate um we can just select this piece and strengthen it and see if that makes a difference rid of the fit mat and let's try that that makes any difference there we go so we'll place that way there we are so now it has like interfacing right so it's staying more straight so you gotta get your model to put it on the right way so sometimes you have to help her a little bit get dressed um okay cool let's simulate that and oh that was simulated just kidding okay cool so then that's it now you're ready to add your prints and print out your pattern and you have your circle skirt

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Length: 19min 36sec (1176 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 22 2020