And after the Maleficent debacle I needed quick 'n dirty.
So I showed up at my friend's house for Knit Night (a group
of my girlfriends gets together once a month and "knits" aka drinks wine and eats pizza.)
carrying a couple packages of elastic, my tulle stash, and a giant bottle of
wine with no other plan then I NEED TO BE DONE WITH THIS OMFG PASSTHEWINE.
The result?
I think I need to roll with tulle and wine everywhere I go
from now on.
Without turning this into too much of a tutorial - because
seriously there are SO MANY of these out there. Google "new sew tutu" and you will be INNUNDATED. Here's what I did:
I cut the 1/2" elastic into a 21 inch length. I figured my daughter has about a 20"
waist and I wanted some overlap. Then I
safety pinned it into a circle.
Probably sewing it would be better but whatevs.
Then I cut the tulle into 4" strips. Since cutting tulle makes the baby Jesus cry
I cheated and rolled the tulle into tubes first. Then I cut those tubes into 4" pieces. It doesn't come out perfect but it is SO
quick and easy. (hey there's a video
for this already online! Check itout.)
Then I put my elastic around a stand-in toddler waist:
What. you use what you've got. |
I kept going until the pizza got there and the result was
pretty darn awesome:
I even had enough tulle leftover to make my friend's
daughter her very own tutu:
I'm not totally convinced it's going to work for Tinker belle, though... I have something else in mind for that. Yes.
My mommy is insane. |