The pattern was included in the May 2012 edition of Cosmode, along with some makeup guides for four major characters. The pattern is too hard to reproduce here, but the instructions are easy enough.
Contents
Instruction pages
English annotations have been marked in red for convenience.
Notes
A rough translation of all the stuff before the procedure.
This is a Bustle Jumper Skirt (JSK).
Sizing
- Nominally a Medium size. Hopefully you happen to match the dimensions suggested, as there's no notes about resizing it that I can see.
- 90cm Bust
- 75cm Waist
- 29cm Shoulder width
75cm finished length (from shoulder to hem?)
Materials
Polyester gabardine (148cm width) |
1.4m |
Interfacing? Fusible? (90cm width) |
0.6m |
Hemming tape (12mm width) (bias tape? fusible bias tape?) |
2m |
Invisible dress zipper (56cm long? seems too long) |
1x |
Gold buttons (24mm diameter) |
10x |
Cutting directions
This is not confirmed to be accurate. There are three guide notes as follows:
Something about seam allowances. Seam allowances are not marked. Leave 2cm allowance for the skirt hem, and 1cm elsewhere.
- Something about applying hemming tape. I think this is the orange edges in the diagram below.
- I think this says to overlock all the edges indicated. Which is a lot of them, they're marked with zigzag edges.
Observe the cutting diagram carefully, it demonstrates the seam allowances. The sew-edges are thick lines, the cut-lines are thin.
Some edges don't need a seam allowance, these are shown (the bottom edges of the back and front facing). Skirt hems need 2cm seam allowances, and the gap is visibly bigger in the diagram.
Note that the material is folded to have two edges when cutting-out, each fold marked with a （ワ） symbol. Most pieces are cut on the fold because they're symmetric. You'll need to cut two of each of the frill and belt pieces.
Cut out interfacing
This is unconfirmed. It looks like you're meant to cut out extra pieces of interfacing, but I don't know when you fix them to the real material.
- V-shaped front
- Back yoke
- Belt (2 pieces, one for each side)
- Rear tab/belt
- Pleat (2 pieces, one for each side)
Preparation
- Apply hemming tape along orange edges as shown.
- Overlock edges marked with zigzags
Sewing guide
We'll try and follow each step as numbered.