Hi Domenica here from Easy Sewing for Beginners dot com in this tutorial I'm going to be showing
you how to make this super simple tutu! There's just a little bit of sewing in this tutorial today
and you can even make it a no sew tutu
if you really want to, butI'll show you exactly how to do that in the tutorial today.
now check the Description box down below to find any links to the materials that you might need for this project
and I'll even have a link to my free PDF project
that you can download from my Craftsy store
ok, so let's get started. Ok so to make one of these awesome tutus you will need six
inch wide tulle by the role and you can usually get this in 25 or 100 yard rolls
lengths. You'll need your length of crochet headband to make a custom size tutu or
you can get the premade crocheted headbands now these things are available on
eBay or Amazon or you craft supply stores. I'll put all the links that I can in the Description box down below for you.
you'll need a sewing machine and matching thread if you make a custom
sized 22. You'll need a pair of scissors and you'll also need a piece of cardboard to make your cutting
template for your tulle and some clips to go with that as well.
And don't forget to check out my tutu size guide and formula for making a custom
size tutu. the link will be in description box down below or you'll find it on my website.
So for the waistband of a tutu you can use these pre-made crocheted headbands. This is a
child's size so I find this is it suitable for children 0 to
about five, but you can make a custom size as well so you can do this for a child of
any age or even an adult. So I find what I do that works pretty well is I measure
the waist level with the hip bone and then I divide that measurement by 1.5 and that
that gives me the length that I need to cut the waistband at. So I know my daughter's waist for
example is 20 inches and dividing 20 inches by 1.5 is just over 13 inches so I'm
going to cut it just over 13 inches. Then I'm going to take this over to the sewing machine. Make sure
that the right side of the crochet headband is on inside when you put the ends
together like so and of course you can hand stitch this if you want by doing
a back stitch a couple of times I'm going to take this over to the sewing
machine to secure those ends together. I'm ready to sew the two ends together. I'm going to be
using triple stitch or my sewing machine and I find that my sewing machine likes to try and eat these crochet headband
things so I'm going to stabilize it with just a little piece of computer paper or
printer paper and I've got my walking foot on my sewing machines as well so if you have one of
those I highly recommend using it. So I'm just going to do about a half inch seam allowance
ok and what I'm actually going to do is I'm going to go over, just to the right of that and do my triple stitch again
Ok so you should be able to just rip that paper off the back there
and then it would just be a matter of trimming off your threads and trimming some of the loose bits off there
but not too close to the stitch line or else it will come undone
ok so now I'm ready to cut the tulle to length. Now I like to do this a quick and easy way
by using a card template. so the way I do this is I know that for my particular tutu I want the length of it to be
10 inches long so I actually need to cut my strips into 20 inch strips and this will make sense
bit later on if you don't quite get why I'm doing that. ok so how I do it is I've got two clips down
the bottom here and I'm just going to try...hopefully my tulle won't run away. I'm just going to clip the tulle and
lining up the end of the tulle with the bottom of the card there. The clips just stop the tulle from slipping off
and so it's as simple as just winding the card around
so I know one full rotation back down to the bottom is one strip. Now I find that
I use about six strips of tulle per one inch of waist band so if you know the length of
your waistband so mines 13 inches. So I times that by six and that would tell me how many
strips of tulle I would need to cut. Ok and I'm just going to finish that one
off here
and just to demonstrate to you I know my clips were at the bottom so that's where I
cut my tulle off there.
and then you can simply just slot your scissors in there and then cut all the way through.
and you just do this for however many strips you need.
Ok so now we're ready to put the tulle onto the crochet waistband.
So what I've got is I've put my waistband onto a little chair just to hold it nice and taught
that'll make it easier for when I'm putting the tulle on so if you've got a bucket or a
piece of card or something that you could do that with it will make it a lot
easier for putting the tulle on. ok now
I like to put my tulle on in strips of 2. So I've actually got two strips here
I'm going to bunch it up in the middle and then I fold it in half like so.
okay and then I'm going to
poke it through...I'm just gonna to start I like to start where the join is on the waistband becaause that'll be at the back
I'm going to go to the section where there's more of a square at the bottom
ok and I'm going to poke the tulle through the hole
above that square there. I hope you can see that . I'm going to poke it from the front and through in towards the back.
I'm just going to pull it through enough
so I can create a loop
so you can open it up there and then I'm going to thread the rest of the tulle through that loop
and then pull it tight.
and then I'm going to repeat that again on the
next square over.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial for how make this super simple tutu and you're inspired to go out and make one
for a little girl that you know or maybe even make one for yourself!
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