Saturday, December 17, 2011

Tiered Tutus

I just wanted to post this because of all of the trouble I had trying to find a good tutorial for a tiered tutu in the past. Last year I wasted a lot of hours away on Etsy.com. I would find myself jumping from store to store admiring all of the craftsmanship that went into all of the crafty items, but mostly I was transfixed on the tutus. I was completely sucked in and mesmerized. But not just any tutus, no I could never be that practical; I was obsessed with the extremely puffy and tiered ones! (I'm not even going to go into how I have been working on a pettiskirt for 8 months now.) I had to learn how to make these layers upon laters if tulled deliciousness! That's when my complete and total compulsiveness kicked in and I went out and bought 1000 yards of tulle...I was ready to create some stuff! Lol:)
After making my daughter about 5 regular knotted tutus which all had about a million strips, I decided I wanted to try my hand at sewing them. After about 3 needles and 6 spools of tulle, I had made a method that I was comfortable with but not confident with...then I found the tutorial that changed my life! I found a comprehensible tutorial for a tiered tutu that didn't assume that I was a master seamstress.
The title of the tutorial is Three Tier Tutu and it can be found on Modderhood.com. What I liked about this method was the step by step photos, the clear concise instructions, and the way she made the skirt, to me, kind of looked like a pettiskirt, mostly because of the added waistband. Because of this awesome tutorial I was able to create this 2 tiered tutu for my daughter and she absolutely loves it!!

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