Friday Comic: How to Make a Tie-On Tutu

First you start out with tulle, not tool, tool does not make tutus.  I started with 8 yards for four tutus, and cut it in half the hamburger way and then again the hot dog way so that I ended up with 4 pieces that were 2 yards by ~22 inches.  

Then I folded it in half and stitched two rows of LARGE stitches with the ends not cut too short. 

Lisa was in charge of gathering the tulle by pulling one string of each stitch.  Lisa was also in charge of ironing the long pieces of cheap stain (come on, they're tutus I wasn't going to buy the nice stuff) into tape.  So pretty much I did all the fun stuff on the sewing machine and Lisa did all the difficult work.

Long story short, you sew the tape on to the gathered tulle and then finish the ends of the tape by sewing the ends together to make double sided ribbons.

A word of advice: Don’t get tulle with GLITTER. Unless you can make the tutus OUTSIDE. I did not take this into account and I am finding glitter all over the house.