No Sew Tutu

Supplies Needed

Scissors

Tape Measure

Ribbon

6-8 yards of Tulle in your choice of colors

(I used baby pink, hot pink, & purple)

                           

First measure the child’s waist.  Then pull out your ribbon, from the end measure eight to ten inches and tie a knot.  Then from the knot measure the distance of the child’s waist, the child I made this for has an 18 inch waist.  So far my length is 26 inches, then at the end of the child’s waist measurement tie another knot, then from the second knot measure another eight to ten inches and cut the ribbon. Should look like so…

       ---------knot-----------18------------knot--------

Sorry didn’t think about taking a picture of that. I hope that makes sense. If not let me know and I’ll find some more ribbon.

Then you want to determine how long you want your tulle pieces to be. Mine were 45 inches long and 4 inches wide. Four inches wide seemed to work the best, so go ahead and cut all of your tulle. Now I know 45 inches sounds really long, but you are going to fold each pieces in half so in all actuality you are only having lengths of 22.5.  So you have to figure that in with the child’s height. On this particular tutu I made it WAY to long, so I’m going to have to trim it, it will look more like a dress on the child I made it for!  

The white ribbon photos are strictly to show you how to tie the tulle onto the ribbon. You take your first length of tulle and fold it in half, then open the half behind the ribbon.  Then you take the ends of your tulle and poke them through the hole together as if one piece, then pull through gently. After you have the tulle through and are tightening it, you’ll have to nudge it and pull it in different directions to get it tight along the ribbon. Keep in mind you can rip the tulle, it’s not very strong. 

One you have a piece tied on you then slide it all the way over the knot, you can alternate colors of tulle or you can use all the same colors, you can even cut the same length of ribbon as your tulle and add ribbons to your tutu as well. I did hot pink, baby pink, purple, then a ribbon.  You’ll add the tulle all along the ribbon between the knots.

Once you are done you are ready to tie it onto the child using the two 8-10 inches pieces hanging off the ends. You’ll have a dancing fairy princess all over hour house in no time.

Also this isn’t exactly easy to do by yourself, so you can find a way to tie the two ends of the ribbon to something to hold it taunt, your can enlist your own Mr. Honey Amazing to hold your ribbon for you, as I did.