These days The Tot is very into Angelina Ballerina and routinely wants to wear her leotard, tights, ballet shoes (thank you Cousin Amy!) and 5 tutus. Yes, five. One is attached to said leotard but the other 4 have been randomly picked up or acquired over the past year or two. Let’s just say they’re starting to look a bit, well, sad. So I looked around for a tutu tutorial (say that 5 times fast!) and found plenty! I went with a no-sew tutu which is ironic because all I want to do these days is sew. But it fit my purposes and I had the tulle so it was the project of the day. Well, okay, two days because I just couldn’t quite get it together enough yesterday. But today I finished one and ran out of material for the second but got 3/4 of the way done with it.

I went with this one because she had great tips about how to cut the tulle and it just looked so darned easy! I have to tell you, it was easy. I was able to finish one and most of another during the hour and a half that The Tot was napping. I would have finished the other if I hadn’t run out of light pink tulle. I could have substituted a few pieces of hot pink tulle but The Tot would have had NONE of that! She made it clear that she was only interested in light pink. And that was even with the Directv guy there installing stuff which distracted me a teensy bit.

Well enough chatter, on to the pics. I have to tell you, I am NOT a photographer and the pics do not do the tutu justice. Just try one yourself and you will see how great they look. I will be making more of these…

Next, I’m going to sew little lavender flowers on the tutu to make it more special…that means a trip to either the fabric store or the craft store. That can’t be bad, can it?