Tutu Tutorial

So one of my friends asked me how to make tutu's so I thought I'd try to do alittle tutorial on here. I'm not sure how good it'll turn out since I can't do a video but here we go :)

You will need 5 yards of Tulle for each layer that you chose to do. If you buy it by the yard the way I cut it is to take each yard and roll it into a thin roll and then go down the roll and cut it into 4 inch sections.

Step One: Measure your little girl.

 Step Two: Measure out your cloth ribbon, you want to measure out the amount you measure above plus 10 extra inches. You mark it by measuring the amount you measured above plus two, mark each end leaving and extra 4 inches on each side so you have room to tie it around your little girls waist. I do 4 inches but you can always do less or more depending on what you want.

 Step Three: Once you've marked your cloth ribbon make a knot in it on each of the spots you marked. Then take your Tulle and loosely wrap it around 2-3 fingers, whichever is more comfortable for you.

 Step Four: put the cloth ribbon in front of the Tulle that is wrapped around your fingers.

 Step Five: take each sting of tulle that is hanging down and pull it up over the ribbon and put it thru the loop that you made around your fingers. Both ends should be coming out of the back of the loop. Pull slowly to tighten the tulle onto the cloth ribbon.

 Once pulled Tight it should look like the above picture :) Keep going until you have Tulle covering your cloth ribbon to the other knot. If you are doing a multi-colored tutu it's easier to see the colors if you do at least 2-3 of each color before switching to the next.

 This is my finished layer of my tutu. you can leave it like this or do another layer and attach them. I will post later and tell you how to attach a second layer.

 I added little white flowers along the top but only on the black tulle. You can add whatever you want, I also have done a lot of tutu's where I place the flowers all over the layers so it looks like the flowers are just flowing on the tulle. You can also add glitter depending what age child it's for and what they are using it for.