I like sewing, but I'm not thrilled with the folding and pressing and folding and pressing to create a hem, especially as I live in a small condo where setting up a full size ironing board is not easy even if I didn't have a small child careening about. Enter: TULLE!
Tulle is a little hard to work with, but I can spread it out on the floor or the dining room table and it can have a cut hem. My Sister-In-Law actually trimmed the end of her TULLE wedding gown herself with a pair of scissors. OK actually she stood on a chair and had her sister cut the gown to the correct length, but I loved that she could do that, and no one outside of the wedding party knew that it wasn't professionally adjusted.
Tutus are very in at my daughter's daycare and ballet class, so I have made a few for her. The second nice thing about making tutus (after TULLE) is that I can lay them out and use safety pins to pin them (not like straight pins stay in tulle anyway) and measure, cut and prep the tutu in 30-60 minutes after dinner, and then come back to the sewing another day.
There are many blogs out there that can give you good advice on tutus. I have many of them pinned in pinterest, and I will be reviewing them on this blog as I use their instructions. For now I have been just running a casing for elastic and using it to gather up the tulle. I have been experimenting with techniques for sewing the seam.
I would rate my sewing skills as beginner, I like simple patterns without much cutting and fitting.
The first TULLE post will be coming soon with pictures of a couple of my homemade tutus and some notes on techniques that I have found for putting them together.
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