Costume making - part 2

The tutu is also a very hard part of the ballerina costume and takes a lot of time. My tutu was made of 3 different materials - cellophane as a decoration, netting as a decoration layer and upper frill and blue plastic bags the other frills.

Every frills is made of 3 pieces with the same size sewn together. Considering my height wich is 5'6'', I cut them with 13'' width which is 33 cm. Every next frill is made with 3 cm shorter width. The other lenght of the pieces is extremely hard to be predicted depending of the waist measurements. Mine was around 145 cm for waist - 78 cm. But when I attach it it was enough only for the half of it so I had make another one of 145 cm and to attach it on the other side.

For the plastic bags I used three triple pieces for one frills. I left the extra piece of the lower basque without sewing on it.

Usually, for a tutu are needed at least 6 layers but because of the hevier weight of the plastic bags, I decided to leave it with only 3.

 In case of adding a decoration on a tutu, a additional layer is needed on the top but it is made in a different way. The decoraton layer is first cut on a cardboard measuring the circle formed on the tutu looking it from the top, a cut in the middle is added where the basque and bodice are. The decoration layer can either be completely flat or a bit curved if the middle cut is made a bit wider. When the cardboard is cut on the netting, there should be at least extra 10 cm left on the outer side because. Otherwise, it might become smaller than the layer under it which is not desireable.

I made my decoration layer with a bit bigger cut in the middle and pin it to the other  frills. You can see the extra fabric left. I cut it a lot wider because it was first time and decided not to risk. The cellophane decoration was made the same way.

Sources:

http://tututoday.com/how-to-make-a-tutu-introembellishment-2/
http://www.burdastyle.com/projects/how-to-make-a-tutu-skirt