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A little while ago I decided to make my 6 year old daughter a skirt. She loves all things swirly so we chose a tiered circle skirt with an elasticated waist; I figured that would be relatively straight forward and forgiving in terms of technical skill, and should end up with the requisite flounciness in the end. Hunting for instructions as to how to get the lengths of each tier right, I came across this pattern.