No Sew Tutu Tutorial

I just love the title of that post! Say that five times fast!!  Tutu Tutorial!!! 

Anyway, isn't this just the MOST darling thing you have ever seen in your life? I think so too! I was trying to think of a gift to give for the 5 little girls that frequent our everyday lives. They range in age from 1-soon to be 4! They are the cutest little girls I swear! I can never buy anything for the one little lady because her mom is a SHOP.O.HOLIC. Seriously! I hate buying for her daughter and her sons! They just have everything so it makes every holiday a hard one! Anyway - I was making all those hairbows and started seeing these cute tutus pop. I didn't think I could do one of these, but there she is and she is CUTE!

Here are the supplies you will need for this no sew tutu tutorial:

3 rolls of the 25 yard tulle. I got dark pink, white, and light pink

They were out of purple rolls of tulle, so I improvised and got a "sheer" 12 ft roll of ribbon. 

A 15' piece of cardboard - mine was a flap of a box. 

A pair of scissors

A crochet headband

2 rubber bands or in my case, 2 chip clips - that is all I had in my house and wasn't about to go looking for rubber bands during nap time. They worked great and I would probably use them again over the rubber band because it didn't move the tulle at all. I got the idea for this cutting method here.

This tutu is for a girl 12 months to about 4 years. The headband is elastic. By the time it wears out, it will likely be filthy from playing in it anyway.

The reason I did 15' is that once folded - it would be about 7.5 inches long. If you want it to be a longer tutu then just add a couple inches to the length of your cardboard box. 

For the tall 4 year old girl, I will likely do 20 inches so you don't see her bloomers. 

You could also use those elastic headbands that dollar tree sells in maybe a 4 pack for a buck. Not sure how comfy that would be though. It also isn't as cute as the headband. 

Take your roll of tulle and wrap it around the cardboard until you have no tulle left on the roll. Then secure it with the clips. I put one on the top and one on the bottom this picture was after I already cut the left side. 

Take and cut along the cardboard line. This creates an even line and no more ridiculous cutting for hours!

Take your first piece and fold it in half long ways

Then fold it in half long ways again. 

Then find the hole in the bottom, not the true true bottom where the elastic is, the hole above it. I do that so that if the elastic snaps you don't have strips coming off. 

Take that piece of tulle and stuff it up the back side of the headband see how it is popping through? 

start to pull it through, but make sure as you are pulling it, that the tails are even. This is really important.

Spread the tulle apart so you can put your fingers into the hole. 

Take the two tails with your thumb and your pointer and middle finger will hold open the hole. 

Pull the tails through. 

It will look like a Y. Keep looking at those tails and make sure they are even and you pull tight. 

This is what it looks like pulled tight. See how you can see the purple in the middle? Looks like a teeny neck tie!!! Keep doing this all the way around. I only did the one bottom row. If you want it to be more full then do the row above it now. If you want it even fuller than that, do the third row too!

I only did the one row for this one. It took about 30 minutes or so. 

Here is a matching (sort of) head band I had made way before that. 

Stick a cute little lady in your life in here! How cute and easy was that!?

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