I really should have taken pictures as I went, but honestly... I was scared and didn't know if it was going to work! I am a very amateur sewer and hadn't made anything in a very long time. What made things worse, is that I was trying to combine two different patterns.
Here is the inspiration for the adult tu-tu. But the DIY for that skirt had a zipper. Dunn-dunn-dun! (Cue scary music.) While I probably could have muddled through it, the biggest problem was that I didn't know my sister's exact measurements. All I knew is that she is a bit taller and a bit thinner than me. (Life's really not fair... I've gotten over it.)
So, I wanted to use the elastic waist pattern I found here. Please note that it says "20 minute skirt," but because I am I used the 20-mintue-skirt pattern for the satin lining. Yes, working with satin, especially for a newbie, is very tricky but it was just the lining so it didn't have to be perfect. I still had to go over the seam 3 times before I was sure it would hold.
Then I used the circle-skirt pattern from the "inspiration tu-tu" for the outside floofy-ness.
I put the lining inside the tu-tu, and sewed them together along the top with very long stitches. This enabled me to gather (scrunch together) the fabric.
Then I pinned it evenly around to the elastic waistband, which was made roughly to the right size. I sewed them together with zig-zag stitches so that it could still stretch. If you used straight stitches, the thread wouldn't let it expand. Oh, then after I finished I found this... which is almost exactly the same thing I did, oy!
At least it turned out pretty good, and it actually fit SisX! Yay elastic!
Such a great model!
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