Birthday Dress Up

I know an awesome little girl who wanted to dress up for her birthday. I love the tutu trend so I decided to put together a little outfit for her.

This was an opportunity I couldn't let pass. With two boys, I don't get an opportunity to make gifts for girls often. I took a trip to Wal-mart to build an outfit for the birthday girl.

The outfit consists of a pair of purple leggings, a tutu, and a white fitted t-shirt.

Cost:

Shirt $3.47
Leggings $4.97
Tulle $9.56
Total $18.00

The tutus alone generally cost double that amount. I made the tutu for a fraction of what it costs to buy a custom made tutu. I had fun doing it.

Procedure:

I followed the tutorial from wowzzydotcom. It's really easy to follow.

Here are a few issues I ran into:

No waist measurement!You can use waist measurements based on little girls' clothing sizes if you don't know the child's waist measurements. I used the size chart from Justice to determine the correct waist measurement based on her clothing size.
Longer than time given. I made a girl's size 16 tutu. This required 8 yards of tulle and double the time described in the tutorial.
Tulle scrunching together. Mist it with a little water. That worked wonders.

I used the left over scraps to make a little flower of the plain white tee. It was really simple gathered some scraps together hand sewed them to the shirt. Trimmed it until I was satisfied with the way it looked.

It all turned out great!

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