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I'll be spending Xmas at my mom's, and we'll have to be on lockdown on the 25th. So the plan is to watch movies and sew my petticoat. Yes... layers and layers of tulle.
I don't have the space nor the table to cut lengths of tulle, which is a difficult fabric to cut. It's stiff, which is an advantage, doesn't fray, another advantage, but one can hardly see single layers of tulle and it springs all over the place. So, I unfolded it, it's a 4m wide tulle, so I kept its factory fold in the middle, and then I accordeon folded the tulle, in a 30cm width (approximated). Then I pinned the folded tulle with safety pins, two at the top, and two at about the length I'm cutting it. My skirt is about 54cm long, and my petticoat will be in two tiers, folded in half. The first with two layers, and the second with 4 layers, two in each of the 1st tier's layer. The top layer width will be the same width as the skirt's, with an elastic waist. The bottom tiers will be as fluffy as the leftover tulle I have. First I thought I only had enough tulle for about double the width, but I could cut one more length, so I added it to the already cut length.
+ Wide stiff tulle is cheap, rather easy to sew and it doesn't fray at all, so it doesn't need to be hemmed.
- It's a pain to cut big pieces from, if you don't have the space, because it springs all over the place and it's hard to see and mark in single layers.
THE CUNNING PLAN
Pack a petticoat kit (the cut tulle, the ribbon for the waist, white thread, plenty of safety pins), and sew it on my mom's sewing machine.
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