Pettiskirt

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With Halloween coming up fast, I've noticed a lot of cute pettiskirts in costume shop windows. I got it in my head that I had to make one for our friend Marianna, who just turned one. I was actually going to make a whole fleet of these for every little girl I know, and Marianna happened to be the first one with a birthday coming up. As it turns out, tulle is kind of annoying to sew. I've always wondered why clothes made of tulle, which is such a cheap material, are always so expensive. Turns out there is a major pain-in-the-butt factor that accounts for the price tag. Sorry, every other little girl I know! Although I have had my eye on this quick 'n' dirty new-sew tu-tu for quite awhile, and I may try to churn out a few of them for the rest if you!
This was also my first attempt at making ruffles. I dug out my old copy of Sew What! Skirts: 16 Simple Styles You Can Make with Fabulous Fabrics, which is a great little instruction book on how to make pattern-free skirts, and I used that as a guide. But mostly I just went at it and kind of figured it out as I went along. I think it came out pretty well for winging it! The nice thing about tulle is that it is very forgiving and hides mistakes well.

Thanks for looking!

Marigold

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GZJ13 writes: For your first try, you did great. The more you do the easier it will get. Somewhere along the line you will be doing something and think how you could do it easier. I was interested because I used to square dance and we wore this type of skirt all the time. I wish they would have thought of putting a different color on the bottom the white skirts that they offered.
Posted: 11:17 pm on September 29th

mypinkrainbow writes: love it so whymsical and girly stuff i love
Posted: 1:28 pm on September 23rd

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