How to Make a Skirt Out of a Tablecloth – easy upcycle project

This is a fun upcycled project that started with a vintage embroidered tablecloth from Vinted. The piece had a beautiful border embroidery the maker wanted to keep visible, so the construction works around it — gathering at the waist, hemming above the embroidered border so it sits as a decorative trim. The technique scales to whatever tablecloth you find: round, square, lace-edged, hand-embroidered. The key is keeping the most beautiful part of the original visible in the finished skirt.

Vintage tablecloths in the wild are a goldmine right now — if you spot one with a border you love at a thrift store, you have the start of a skirt that nobody else owns.
— Mayra

What you’ll want on hand

• Dritz 1″ wide elastic (for waistband) — soft elastic for a comfortable gathered waist
• Schmetz universal needles size 80/12 — the all-purpose pick for vintage cotton
• Coats & Clark all-purpose thread — reliable workhorse to match the tablecloth

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