My most recent Charli's-first-birthday project was making a tutu. Unfortunately, I had two ideas of what I wanted to do. Even more unfortunately, 2 Michael's stores did not have what I needed, so I had to reform my ideas. For the first tutu, I cut a 17" strip of 3/4" no-roll elastic & stitched the ends together. I read that you should use 4 strips of tulle for every inch of elastic, so i cut 68 18" pieces of tulle. My pattern was fuschia, light pink, fuschia, lime green. I didn't feel like that was enough, so I cut an extra 4 pieces. I tied them onto the elastic using a slip knot, & this is how it turned out:
My next idea for a tutu was to make it mostly lime green & tie fuschia pieces of tulle around the ends of the lime green. I measured the same length of elastic, but this is where Michael's disappointed me. The two stores I went to were out of more fuschia tulle, & Walmart didn't have it, either. So I bought the light pink & my pattern for this tutu was lime green, light pink, lime green, light pink. Because I didn't have enough fuschia, I only used 52 strips of tulle. Each of these strips were 20" long, & I used the slip knot for these, also. I tied 6" strips of fuschia onto the lime green pieces of tulle only. This is how this tutu turned out:
I don't think I like the second tutu as much as the first. It's not as full as I would like for it to be. I will probably use the first tutu for Charli's birthday party, but maybe she'll enjoy playing dress-up in the second one, too!
