Two Crafty Girls: T-Shirt Tutu

Every little girl needs a tutu....or two!

I made this t-shirt tutu dress for a little friend celebrating her Italian heritage.

Here's is an easy way to sew a t-shirt tutu dress perfect for any event or even just playing dress up.

Start with a t-shirt to fit your little girl and some tulle in your chosen colours. I picked a 2T toddler shirt in white and one meter of each green, red, and white tulle.

Measure where you want the "waist" of the skirt to start and put a mark there. I marked at 5 inches from the bottom with a pin.

Now to make the tutu skirt, just measure how long you want the layers to be, making the underskirts longer than those on top.

I cut the green at 15 inches.

The white at 12 inches.

And the red at 9 inches.

Now there are many ways to make the ruffles in the tulle for the skirt, you can do a long basting stitch and gather it together, or you can used a "ruffler" foot on your sewing machine, or you can do the easy way like I did. Just find the middle of the tulle and pin it to the middle of the t-shirt. Then pin each side of the tulle to each side of the shirt.

Now you can find the middle of that section of tulle and pin it to the shirt in the middle of those pins.

See how it's starting to ruffle up and look like a tutu skirt?

Now just sew it the t-shirt using a simple straight stitch. Sorry, I didn't capture an image of the green getting sewed on, but here is the same thing repeated with the white layer.

Now you have two layers on, just repeat with the red. Pin in place and sew the ruffles down.

I know you're not supposed to sew over pins, but sometimes I'm wild like that. If you are going to rebel like I did and sew over them, just go slow and be careful, it's not worth losing an eye over!