Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Fabric Scrap Tutu

I'm filing this post under "sewing," even though the sewing truly is minimal!  A while back, my sister Heidi (aka Hockey by Gemma Grace!) pinned this idea on her adorable "muskrats" board:

Fabric tutu...a little less girly than the tulle kind and use up scrap fabric


Well, a blogger came up with her own copycat tutorial and Hockey picked up some cute fat quarters to recreate it.  She ended up leaving them at our house at Christmas, and I in turn brought them to my mom's in July to use her pinking shears on them!

Though I liked the pointed strips of the original pin, I ended up following the tutorial pretty closely and decided they were fine as-is.  :)


Little one was getting sick when I took these photos . . . poor thing . . . 


"How are you going to keep it from fraying when you wash it?"  Excellent question . . . I'm intending it to be a dress-up tutu and am going to try hard not to have to wash it!  But I suppose you could spray some fray-stop or something on it.  

Another fun thing is that I cut the elastic out of one of my cami's to make it more nursing-friendly, so the entire project cost me nothing!


She loves it, Hockey!  Thanks for the idea and the supplies!

2 comments:

  1. Lovely! I made one for Charis over a year ago and LOVED it, but it frayed terribly. She was able to wear it for Chick-fil-A's cow day, since the fabric was cow print that I bought at Jo-Ann Fabric.

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