Tulle Skirt
Perhaps it's having a young daughter who always wears a tutu over EVERYTHING, but I have been wanting a classed-up version of a tulle skirt.Since I am not creative when it come to designing patterns, I found this tutorial:
Simple Tulle Skirt Tutorial
I bought all my fabric online and was so excited when it arrived. I bought enough fabric to make two skirts, one in grey and one in purple.
I started by taking some of my kids butcher drawing paper and making a pattern. The hardest part is trying to line up the tulle. It folds easy and is a nightmare to pin. Including pattern making, the whole grey skirt took under 2 hours. I was tired of fighting tulle and elastic, so I decided to wait to the next day to make the purple one. My mistake. My husband thought the paper was recycle and crumpled it up to recycle it. That's why it's not in pristine condition in these photos!
The grey was FABULOUS, but I decided I wanted the purple to be a bit longer. Let's be honest, I didn't want to make a second pattern. that was a mistake. Between just trying to add (visually) an inch around the pattern and the now-messy nature of the paper, it wasn't even. I need to work on that.
My daughter has a "princess" birthday to attend this weekend, and I am going to wear the grey skirt, as she believes it best matches her Elsa dress!
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| Materials Needed |
| I purchased the materials according to the tutorial. 7 yards of tulle, a yard and a half of knit and some 2" elastic (I think I bought like three yards, knowing there would be extra for other skirts) Because I am lazy, I purchased a knit so I wouldn't have to hem anything. That was the rec of the tutorial I used, and she was right. In the end you only sew two things. Once to connect the elastic ends together and once to attach all the fabric to the elastic. SUPER simple! |
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| Pattern along the fold of the knit fabric |
You can see the pattern is a little worse for wear after my husband attempted to recycle it.
You want to place the pattern along the fold of the fabric so you only have to cut once for a full circle.
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| Have you ever tired to pin tulle?! |
Seriously, tulle is a pain to work with. It's slippery and full of holes!
I used my quilting clips (really hair clips) rather than pins to hold all the layers together.
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| This is what you should end up with. A circle folded in half |
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| Here are all the layers clipped together |
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| Final Results! |
Try It Yourself!
