My daughter is obsessed with her "lamby" doll from doc mcstuffins. So we decided to make that her costume this year. We purchased a simple lamb costume online & knew we would have to come up with a bow & tutu to complete the look.
I had always planned on making it. As time escaped, I almost resorted to buying one instead.
I found an "okay" one at Jo-Ann's for $15. A super cute one at target for $14.
But I just couldn't bring myself to spend that much when I knew I could buy all the supplies I needed for under $5.
I turned to Pinterest trying to find a tutorial to follow when making my tutu. However I couldn't find any worth my time or even worth "pinning" for that matter.
All I could find was the "tie" tutu method and I personally, am just not a fan of how the end result looks. I don't like how you can still see the elastic at the waist band.
With my mothers help we came up with our own No Sew tutu tutorial
Talk about winging it. You should have seen us! What a hoot. But so easy took us 15-20 minutes & it turned out so cute.
I love the gathered look you get at the waist band using this technique.
All you need is:
Tulle
Elastic
Thread (or yarn, string etc.)
Hot glue gun
Glue sticks
Scissors
I purchased 2 yards of tulle. 1 yard of each color. We picked out a dark pink & a light pink to intermix. That cost 79 cents per yard.
We just took the elastic and held it around my daughters waist to get a rough measurement. I cut it a little bigger than needed to leave room for her costume. (You can get elastic for a couple bucks a yard. I happen to have some laying around, next to my sewing machine.)
I hot glued the two ends of elastic together.
We then folded the pieces of tulle in half (hot dog style) & cut down the middle.
We repeated this step by folding the tulle in half & cutting them again. Leaving us with 8 total pieces of tulle.
I took the long pieces and cut about 4-5 rectangles from each.
Like I mentioned, we had no plan or idea to follow. We were winging it. So simple, but all over the place lol. So stay with me!
Once we had all these little rectangles cut out we just gathered an end and twisted it.
We secured it with some thread and tied the gathered end together to secure it.
I then hot glued the gathered end to the elastic waist band. We repeated this step alternating the colors until completed.
I will confess the tulle only made its way 3/4 the way around the waist band. And since my daughter is 8 months old & only weighs 17 lbs you can imagine the elastic band wasn't very big.
So of course the amount of tulle will depend on the size needed.
But I couldn't love the end result more. So full, so cute & EASY!!
Enjoy.
Happy crafting !!!
& Happy Halloween!