Tu Tu for Two Year Photos

A little over a week ago I made a tutu for Wednesday's upcoming second birthday. I spent about four hours tying the tulle to the elastic. While doing this I watched a couple four episodes of Supernatural (for the plot i swear!) and ate half of a bag of Reeses Pieces. But it went by like a breeze and had I not knotted half the tutu backwards (I had to take it off of my leg to pee.) it would have only taken me between two and three hours. A couple of days later I added some skinny chocolate brown ribbon and self adhesive 'rhinestones'. I sewed fat chocolate brown ribbon to the elastic instead of sewing the elastic into a loop so that I could adjust the tightness/size on Wednesday and remove it easier.

Below is a slideshow of the pictures we took at the park a couple of days ago for her second year mailer cards plus some tutu progress photos. It turned out wonderful, if not a little bit long but this means it will fit her for years and years (and should last as long).

I did not use a single tutorial but I will leave the links fo the most useful ones and why.

This one from Plum Tickled has a great idea about buying the tulle in rolls and cutting your strips two at a time. But I didn't like how she knotted hers so I kept looking.

This one from Grosgrain had the knots I wanted and I liked her idea for staggering the lengths.

I used two lengths (30" & 24") and did it like this....

white 30
pink 30
white 30
pink 24
white 24
pink 24
white 30
pink 30
white 30

"etc. etc. etc. and so forth."

And then I tied the skinny ribbon between every six pieces of tulle and added the shiny bits willy nilly.

If you have any questions feel free to ask, but for serious it does not get any easier than this. that is the beauty of it all. :)