Tutu pattern

I've spent the last two days on the first half of a course on tutu construction at Morley College, it's amazing! I've always wanted to know how to make a tutu, plus the course description looked like it would teach me a useful thing or two to help with my everyday dressmaking. I've learnt so much already even though most of what we've done so far has been to do with pattern drafting and design. These two weekends are all about how to construct a stretch bodice and the romantic tutu which is…

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The plate for the tutu goes over the top of the actual tutu and is the decoration. My plate is the same fabric as the bodice so ties it all together, there is a net layer underneath this which is the net I dyed earlier. I learnt how to make the plate by cutting a hole in a piece of calico by using a sunray effect of cutting, the putting this over the mannequin with my tutu on it. I then could draw out the plate pattern piece. This method of creating the plate could be used as a way of…

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Here's the post I just know you've been waiting for. Now read on and concentrate because I don't want you saying in time to come "I wished I had listened to Farmers Wife because I really need to pancake a tutu and I don't know how".... This is how the tutu arrived, all folded up and floppy. Here is the tutu gun, which deposits little plastic tags in the tulle, keeping the layers together. First of all, I layed the tutu on the table,upside down and fanned the layers out flat. You take the gun…

How Professional Tutus Are Made For anyone wondering whether this is me making up cute names, I can assure you that Pancake Tutu is actually the proper technical term for the currently most popular…