HOW TO MAKE A TULLE SKIRT

As I explained in my latest video on YouTube, it’s not complicated to make a tulle skirt. It just takes some planning and time to do.

First, you need to create a solid base skirt to sew all the layers onto. I usually use a half circle skirt, which I enforce.

It could be short or longer, depending on how big you want the skirt and how many layers are needed to give you the effect that you want.

 

The tulle skirt shown in this post has a short base skirt and six dense layers.

You need to figure out how long you want the tulle skirt and what shape you want it.

Then mark the lengths of all the layers onto the base skirt pattern with space in between and stitch these guidelines on to the base skirt. 

I always create a pants closing without the zipper, so there’s an overlap at the closing.

Find out how dense you want the layers before you cut them. You often need more than you think.

Gather the layers with two rows of a solid thread and distribute them evenly and pin them on right against right, except for the waist layer. It gives it more volume.

Start with the second highest layer and work your way down. The longest layer is attached to the waist at last.

Finish the tulle skirt off with an enforced waistband and some hooks and eyes.

 Design and execution: John F. Clement

The story behind this particular dress.

This dress was made for a Flower Festival event in Denmark years ago. It was made-to-measure as all the dresses I created for this event. All the dresses had some kind of floral motif in the design, since it was a Flower Festival. 

-As you can see in this old posts, here and another event here.