DIY tulle dress

Little girls love to wear beautiful dresses with charming fluffy skirts for various celebrations. But heavy petticoats and crinolines are not the best option for babies, so mothers try to find a simpler option, for example, a tutu model with a tutu skirt or an American tulle. Even if you don’t have a sewing machine, you can make a dress of tulle with your own hands. In this article we will tell you how to do this without having much experience in needlework.

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How to make a tutu dress without sewing?

Every mother knows that for a little girl, a full tulle skirt is not just a wardrobe item, but a true embodiment of a dream about a fairy-tale magical world where she feels like a real princess. It’s not difficult to give a baby such a gift, you will have to spend a little time and show imagination. You can easily make a light and airy tutu dress with your own hands in just a few evenings.

Important! If at home you could not find a suitable top, you can knit it with knitting needles or crochet with any pattern that is convenient for you, it is desirable that it be tight. It can be sirloin technique, pineapples, individual elements from squares or flowers.

Here's what you generally need to work:

• For the top you will need yarn;
• For a skirt - multi-colored or plain tulle;
• Hook;
• Wide bandage in a grid;
• Beads for decoration.

The following manipulations will be required:

• Collect loops so that the length of the chain corresponds to the circumference of the chest, then close it. Next, just knit to the required length.

Important! To prevent the finished top from slipping, sew an elastic band on top, then make straps.

• Then, from tulle, cut strips 15 cm wide and of the intended length. Be sure to keep this in mind that you will then bind them folded in half in length.
• Put a rubber band over the book to make it easier to tie strips.
• Attach strips start from the bottom row, in the form of a fringe. Take an elastic band, tie the ends of each tape to it. Thread them through the elastic, tie one end into a knot, then thread it back into the loop. Tie the other end with a double knot. Do the same in a circle with the rest of the ribbons.
• After finishing work, trim the ends of the ribbons with scissors.

Important! In fact, tulle ribbons allow miracles to work. Binding, they can be decorated with feathers. Too long elastic can be decorated with flowers. In addition, you can create a beautiful train. If you did not find a suitable elastic band, you can use the usual wide grid.

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How to make a tutu dress yourself?

Outfits with skirts, like ballerinas, of different pomp and length, are today worn by all little ladies with or without. This is an ideal option for any holiday, for example, a model with a short skirt is suitable for the image of a snowflake, with a long one - for a queen or a princess. In this section, we will tell you how to sew a tulle dress with an original corset.

Sew the corset first:

1. Make a top pattern or use a ready-made example from a fashion magazine, slightly adjust it in accordance with the measurements taken from your daughter, then model the necessary details.
2. Draw on the tuck pattern.
3. Make a embossed cut line.
4. Add 3 cm backrests on the shelves for the fasteners.
5. Cut out all the details from the lining fabric (just do not make allowances on the shelves of the back) and the main material, then sew them.
6. Cut the bar out of the main fabric.
7. From the main material, sew regiline on the seams of the top, cut it.
8. Fold the top and lining together, carefully matching all the seams. Sew them on a typewriter.
9. Make straps to keep the corset well. Make special holes for lacing on the back straps.

In a classic form, the tutu skirt has from 12 to 16 layers, but in order to simplify the work a bit and sew a dress from tulle for the girl with her own hands in the shortest possible time, you can make only 4 layers. You will need pieces of rectangular shape. The height of each subsequent layer will gradually decrease by 2.5 cm. The last layer can be made of lining fabric so that the child's legs do not prick tulle.

Important! You can make the dress the length you want. Each strip should equal at least two waist sizes.

Make a skirt:

1. Cut a wide belt from knitted fabric.
2. Stitch together the strips for the first layer, then pull to the size of the resulting belt. Stitch the ribbon at the top.
3. Do the same with the rest of the layers.
4. Sew all the layers to the belt so that the skirt is tight and fluffy.

The outfit for your young princess is almost ready, it remains only to sew a skirt to the corset.

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How to make a dress with a voluminous skirt?

Next, we will consider how to sew a cloud dress from tulle in stages. This is quite painstaking work, because the skirt should resemble a ball in shape, but the finished outfit looks incredibly stylish. The top can be made in the form of a corset, classic or asymmetric. How to make this detail - you already know, therefore it is better to focus on the manufacture of the lower part of the outfit. Prepare a piece of soft tulle, elastic and stretch fabric.

Sew a cloud skirt using the following technique:

1. From tulle, cut strips about 10 cm wide.
2. Cut out a rectangle from stretch fabric, sew it into a ring.
3. Sew a strip on it from the bottom, stitching straight in the middle, while forming folds. To make the skirt airy, make as many folds as possible. At the end, close the ruffles in the ring.
4. Using an iron, iron the ruff on one side.
5. Sew the second one after 1 cm, continue to do so until the beginning of the product, leaving 5 cm on top for the drawstring, stretch an elastic band into it.

Using such simple methods, many mothers sew dresses from tulle for girls with their own hands. The main thing is to do the work with pleasure, so that at the celebration your daughter will be the most beautiful and bright.

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Decor options for beautiful tulle outfits

If you have already sewed a children's tulle dress with your own hands, but the color does not quite match the theme of the upcoming celebration, then you can try to color it. Just remember that ordinary dyes for natural materials are not suitable for dyeing tulle from polyester:

• To give it a yellow, emerald or pink shade will help the most ordinary iodine, zelenka or fukortsin. To do this, it is enough to mix one bottle of the product in a metal basin with several liters of water and half a glass of vinegar, then immerse the cloth in it, slightly warm it on the stove to a temperature of 50 degrees. The material should be left in solution until completely cooled, then rinse thoroughly in cool water.
• Using paints and a stencil, prints can be applied to the fabric, for example, to draw black peas on a red fabric to create an image of a ladybug.
• The bottom edge of the skirt can be covered with transparent glue and then generously sprinkled with sequins.

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Fatin is a very convenient material for work. Therefore, even beginner needlewomen do not have problems with it. The main thing is to clearly imagine the model you want to get, take measurements correctly and take your time when sewing!