DIY tulle skirt

Do you like fluffy skirts and want to quickly update your wardrobe? Then tulle is exactly what you need. An hour of work, and you can put on a new stylish little thing. This wonderful material will help you out even if your daughter desperately needs to turn into a real princess. How to make a skirt of tulle with your own hands? There are several ways, and now we will talk about them.

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What is tulle?

A do-it-yourself tulle skirt is the easiest and fastest way to make a festive outfit, but other models for girls and slender women are also possible, since the properties of the fabric allow you to use it in the most unexpected ways.

Important! Initially, this material was intended for wedding dresses. As the name implies, a veil was made of it - short, long, simple in shape and with all kinds of folds or frills. At first, manufacturers produced only white tulle, but after fashionistas came up with sewing skirts from it, the most incredible varieties appeared on sale. Now, curtains, bedspreads, and many other beautiful and practical things are sewn from it.

Fatin is a type of nylon with a mesh texture. It happens:

• soft;
• medium hardness;
• tough.

Important! For a fluffy skirt, the first two options are suitable. A ballet tutu can be made of hard tulle. But in general, it is more suitable for curtains or decorative bedspreads.

Color

Wedding fashion has undergone significant changes in recent years. White clothes are no longer required, the dress and veil can be any color. Accordingly, the material for it is painted in pastel and bright colors.

Important! What is most pleasant - tulle perfectly retains color, does not fade and does not fade. So there’s no reason to fear that a brand new tulle skirt with your own hands will lose attractiveness after the first wash.

If you want to get a new outfit, keep in mind that the skirt should look good with existing things:

• It can be worn with a top, and with a black t-shirt (ballet style is still in fashion), and with a light blouse.
• A skirt of any color will suit a white or black topic.
• If you sew a tutu skirt for a little daughter, then in addition to the most suitable body in tone or black.

Decorative elements

Before you sew a tulle skirt, you should think about whether you need decorative elements on the fabric itself or not. In the first years of its existence, tulle was just a white mesh without any decorations. She herself is good enough, from it you can make simple, but sophisticated things.

Now on sale you can find all kinds of varieties of this material:

• with sparkles;
• with rhinestones;
• with embroidery;
• multi-colored.

Important! By choosing a material with decorative elements, you will save time, because you will not have to come up with jewelry on your own. However, a fluffy skirt without any decor also looks quite impressive.

The benefits of tulle

This material has many advantages, but there are practically no shortcomings. Undoubted advantages:

• it keeps its shape perfectly - does not sit, does not stretch, does not crease;
• it is very easy to wash;
• tulle does not need to be ironed;
• You can cut in any direction.

Dimensions

Another advantage of this material is its width. The minimum is 150 cm, but it can be 210 cm, or even 300 cm. That is, you will not have any problems with calculating the fabric.

Important! The most interesting thing is that even in the most ordinary fabric store, you can find tulle, which is sold both as ordinary material, that is, cuts, and in rolls.

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Getting ready for sewing

A do-it-yourself tulle skirt is an ideal garment for a beginner seamstress. This material is very easy to work with. But, if you have never done needlework, you will have to prepare some tools. You need:

• sewing machine;
• a set of needles to her;
• set of needles for hand sewing;
• sharp scissors or cutting knife;
• tape measure;
• tailor's meter (long wooden or metal ruler);
• pencil;
• twine or string;
• tailor pins.

Choose a style

A straight tulle skirt does not look very good, but a fluffy one - it looks just great. There are several main styles:

• the sun;
• half sun;
• pack (“tutu”);
• long tutu (“shopenka”).

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Tulle Sun Skirt

This model is made on a lining, so you need material and for it - it is best to take an atlas, it is dense, effective and also sold with wide cuts. But first you need to take measurements. There are only two of them:

• waist circumference
• length of the product.

Fabric quantity calculation

The skirt-sun pattern is a circle with a recess in the middle. Best of all, if there will be no seams at all - at least on the outer layer. The width of the tulle allows this. To make a skirt, a cut in 2 product lengths is enough. The same amount of lining material is needed.

What else will you need?

You will need a little additional materials. They are needed:

• for the belt;
• to handle the bottom.

If the belt has a fastener, you need another button or two. It is better to think about the design of the belt in advance. It can be done:

• from gum;
• from fabric, including satin.

Important! A wide elastic band, it is also an elastic band, is an ideal option for a beginner craftswoman. It does not need to be stitched; it is dense enough to hold its shape well. In sewing stores an assortment of such products. The gum can be of very different widths and almost any color, so it’s not difficult to pick it up to match the material. The optimal width is from 3 to 5 cm.

You can make a belt from fabric. For this, a strip of satin with a width of 8-10 cm is suitable. It is better to prepare the belt in advance:

1. Cut along an oblique strip, the length of which is equal to the waist circumference plus 5 cm per fastener, and the width is 2 times the width of the proposed belt, plus allowances of 1 cm on all sides.
2. Fold the strip in half with the wrong side facing out, aligning the long sections.
3. Sew short cuts.
4. Turn out a strip.
5. Iron the fold.
6. Fold allowances along the long sides inward.
7. Iron them.
8. Mark the place for the buttonhole and buttonhole.
9. Prepare a corsage tape - its width is equal to the width of the belt, its length is the circumference of the waist, plus a fastener.
10. Put the tape in your belt.
11. Cut the loop - you can immediately overcast it.

Cut

Such a skirt is hidden directly on the fabric, but it is still preferable to draw not on tulle - it is better to do this on the lining material, and then cut the outer layer from it on the blank.

But first you need to calculate the notch. To do this, remember the school course in mathematics - you know the circumference (this is the circumference of the waist) and you need to find out the radius. This measure should be divided by 6.28. Then proceed as follows:

1. Fold the cut in half, aligning the edges.
2. Fold it again in half, combining the slices - you get one closed corner, which will be the center of the circles.
3. Putting the compass leg in a closed corner, draw an arc with the radius that you calculated.
4. From the ends of this arc, set aside a measure equal to the length of the product.
5. Connect the resulting points in an arc.
6. Trim the workpiece in both arcs.
7. You got a ring on which you need to cut the second - from tulle.

Important! You can, of course, cut it in another way by spreading the fabric on the floor in one layer and drawing circles from one center, but for this you need a large compass, and there will be much more space.

Assembly

So, you already have all the necessary details:

• outer layer of tulle;
• satin lining;
• belt;
• inlay for processing the bottom.

You can proceed with the assembly:

1. Sew the bottom of the lining and the base layer with an oblique trim.
2. Sweep the layers along the edge of the recess, making knots at the beginning and at the end of the seam.
3. Measure what you got
4. Adjust the assembly.
5. Sew a belt.

Gum Belt:

• It needs to be sewn, folded with the skirt blank on the front sides.
• During operation, the belt blank should be slightly tensioned.
• The stitch needs to be set to a small length, but if there is an overlock, you can immediately process it without prior sewing.
• The edges of the belt are most conveniently sewn by hand.

Important! The bottom of the tulle layer can not be processed at all - the inlay plays a decorative role.

Just like that, you can sew a tulle skirt with your own hands. We will analyze other options as well - they will be no more complicated.

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Half sun

This skirt is sewn almost the same as the sun. The difference is in the cut, and an additional step is added during assembly.

Important! The fabric needs half as much, that is, if the cut is wide, one length of the product is enough.

Proceed as follows:

1. Find the middle of the edge - you can mark it somehow so as not to get confused (you can put a point or make a couple of stitches).
2. Fold the fabric in half - the marked corner will be the middle of the notch.
3. From the mark, draw an arc with a radius equal to the waist circumference divided by 6.28.
4. From the points of intersection of the arc with the edge and with the fold of the fabric, lay the length of the product.
5. Connect the points with an arc.

Half-skirt assembly

A half-sun has at least one seam, and it is better if it is located behind:

1. Fold the lining facing inward.
2. Stitch the seam.
3. Iron the edges of the stock.
4. Sew them.
5. Stitch the seam of the tulle layer (the allowance can be very small and you don’t need to overcast it).
6. Align the layers, sew the edge of the notch with a basting seam, fold the folds and sew the belt.

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Layered skirts

If you want to sew a very magnificent skirt - make it from several layers of tulle. Moreover, the layers can be of the same length or different. The assembly order will be almost the same as when stitching the “sun” or “half-sun”, only first you need to sweep all the tulle layers together.

Important! Do-it-yourself tulle skirts from several multi-colored layers of different lengths look interesting. In this case, there are two options for processing the lower cut:

• inlay for the color of each of the layers;
• edging of the same color.

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Do-it-yourself tutu skirt

For the manufacture of such a model, which is also called a pack, you do not need a sewing machine - well, except perhaps stitching an elastic band for a belt. But the belt can be made differently - from a regular satin ribbon, which is tied with a bow. There is no lining for this model either.

Important! The calculation of the amount of material is simple. You need so much tulle that is enough for 70-100 strips 10-15 cm wide and a length equal to the length of the product, multiplied by two. Since the structure of tulle allows you to cut it in any direction, you can do with a very small amount.

In addition to the actual fabric, you will need:

• an elastic band or belt tape;
• cutting knife;
• long ruler or centimeter tape;
• maybe - paper for the pattern;
• 2 chairs with backs.

Manufacture

If you have not figured out how to sew a fluffy skirt from a net for a girl - the master class begins! A tutu skirt or “tutu” is made of many strips that are tied around the belt:

1. Fold the tulle in as many layers as possible.
2. Cut it into strips of the right size - the strips should be even.
3. Stretch the ribbon between the chairs.
4. Mark a waist circumference on it - the ends should remain so long that a lush bow could be tied.
5. Tie a strip of tulle to the first mark on the tape so that the knot is tight enough and the ends are even (for example, the starting macramé knot is suitable).
6. Tie the second strip next to it, the third and the others behind it.
7. Thus fill the entire tape to the second mark, while the nodes should lie close to each other.
8. The final strips can be sewn to the tape with inconspicuous stitches, the edges of the tape can be processed in any way so that they do not crumble.

Do-it-yourself striped tulle skirt for girls

• A pack can be two-tone, or even rainbow. It all depends on what fatin you have.
• It is better to take the tape in tone of one of the bands.
• If you are making a two-color skirt, calculate the stripes so that the start and end are different colors.

Important! This method of manufacturing a skirt is good in that the number of fragments can be adjusted.

How to sew a tutu skirt for a girl?

This model is not much different from the previous one, only the skirt is more authentic and not so magnificent. Strips for it can be made wider - 15-20 cm. Do not forget that they should be twice as long as the skirt itself. And then - proceed in exactly the same way as in the manufacture of a short bundle, tying each fragment to the tape.

Important! In this case, the nodes should not be too close to each other. On the contrary - it is better to straighten them slightly. As a result, you will get a model that is most often seen on ballet dancers dancing Chopin's waltzes - that’s why the skirt got the name “Chopin”.

Variations of “Chopin”

It seems that the manufacturing technology of the “shopenka” skirt is extremely simple and does not allow fantasy to take off. No matter how. And in this case, options are possible:

• Firstly, like a simple pack, a “shopka” can be two-tone and rainbow - it all depends on the alternation of stripes.
• And you can play with the texture - for example, make half the strips of matte tulle, and the second of brilliant the same color.

Another option is to make strips of different lengths, some strictly according to the measure equal to twice the length of the product, others about a quarter shorter. Here is an example of such a do-it-yourself tulle skirt:

1. Tie 10 long strips.
2. Tie 10 short in the same way.
3. Alternate the fragments to the second mark on the tape - the last should be short stripes.

Skirt “Chopin” with frill

In the manufacture of a regular skirt, the halves of each strip are adjacent. But you can make another style, when the short edge is superimposed on the long - you get something like a second layer on top.

Important! The strips are better not the size of two product lengths, but shorter by about a third, but they must be the same.

Then everything is simple:

1. Tie the first strip so that one edge is about 15 cm shorter than the other.
2. Spread the strip so that the short edge lies on top of the long one.
3. Tie the remaining strips the same way.
4. The position of the fragments can be fixed on the belt from the wrong side.
5. The short edges of the strips can be decorated, for example, with beads or rhinestones.

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Made sure that sewing a tulle skirt with your own hands is easy? Then it’s time to start this fascinating process, creating new beautiful things for yourself and your child, because it is these skirts that emphasize the femininity, lightness, elegance of any young lady, and therefore are very desirable in her wardrobe.