Too Cute Tutu

I love girly girl things, which is funny because I wasn't overly girly girl when I was a kid nor am I personally.  I like the girly things but if you looked at me you probably wouldn't guess that I do.

I'm crazy over tutus.  If I could get away with wearing one and #1 look cute and #2 not be hauled away to the crazy bin, I would wear one ALL the time.  

But I can't, so I don't.

That doesn't stop me from making my very first tutu ever for my friend's 1 year old daughter.  My friend lives out of New England and this is the first time I'm meeting her little girl, I am very excited.  So this meeting gave me an excuse to make a tutu.  

I googled a bunch of tutorials to find the instructions, there are 1,000s of them out there.  I even bought a tutorial from Etsy today to make different styles, stay tuned for how those turn out.  

The best part is that I only used my dreaded sewing machine to sew the elastic into a loop and I could have even sewn that by hand.  Dreaded sewing machine only because I'm not at all confident in my sewing skills.

Now I didn't have the little girl available to measure so I googled until I found some measurements, one said 17inches for 12 month old.  I asked little girl's Mom and she is in 12 month sizes right now so I went with that.  I think the 17 inches is waaaaay too big but I don't have kids so I could be crazy.  Other tutorials said measure your child's waist and then take away an inch, others said measure the waist and add two inches.  

Confused?  So was I.  My solution to the problem was to call my Mom, ask her what she thought of the 17inches and she said go for it.  My back up solution is to bring a safety pin so that we can pin any excess elastic if it's too big for little girl.  Heck, she will grow into it.

I think with my next tutu I am going to try the ribbon waist where you just tie, it's kind of like a tutu apron I guess.  I'm tutu crazy now so I expect I will be making a lot of these.  We know three pregnant people right now and one is having a boy, let's hope the other two have girls so I have someone to give these future tutus.

Are you ready to see my creation?  

Adorable!

I bought the shirt but I have hopes of learning how to applique in the very near future.

 I did not sew the tutu to the shirt, I figure little girl can grow with this tutu a bit so the shirt will change.

I just safety pinned the tutu to the shirt for picture taking purposes.

I'm super happy with how this turned out and I'm already scheming my next tutu.  Hmmm...wonder if my kitty, Ruby would wear one?  Just kidding!!!  

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