Anything frilly and fancy goes down extremely well with Style My Party, so when we discovered Lucy from Dear Beautiful had been making tutu’s for her daughter’s 1st birthday, we asked her if she would like to share her tutorial with our readers. Lucky for us, she was very happy to do so, so be prepared to melt, this is cutest tutu tutorial.

How  to  Make  a  Tutu

Tutus make great party attire for little girls, or are a lovely addition to the dressing up box, but sometimes as they are so gorgeous, just for the sake of it. I put this tutu together for my baby daughter in a couple of hours. It’s so easy to do and you don’t even need to sew.

You need scissors, rolls of tulle and either ribbon or elastic for the waistband (I’ve made one with ribbon and one with elastic and they both work equally well). I’d recommend using the tulle on a roll.

You could use larger fabric and cut it into strips yourself but I always find the cutting bit of any project the most boring bit and buying the rolls massively reduces your cutting time.

For this project I used tulle in white, cream, yellow and a golden orange colour, but you could use any colour you wanted. Because tulle lets so much light through, the effect it very pale, so if you wanted a brighter tutu I’d recommend buying bolder tulle.

 You need to start by measuring your child’s waist, so that you know the size to make your tutu. I tied knots at the point where the two ends met round my daughter’s tummy. I then knew I needed to fill the gap between those two knots to make her tutu.

(You can always continue to add more tulle as your child grows so that it grows with them.)

Then you need to cut your lengths of tulle. Work out how long you want the skirt to be and then double it. This is the length of tulle that you need to cut. It needs to be doubled as each length of tulle will be folded over as you attach it to the ribbon waistband. (This tutu is 20cm long so the length I cut were approximately 40cm. If the tutu was for a toddler or larger child, you would want to increase the length.)

You don’t need to be really exact about your cutting or your lengths, it won’t show once the tutu is assembled.

Then you are ready to start putting your tutu together. I found it easier to tie the waistband ribbon around a photo frame so that the ribbon was tight.

A book would work just as well, or your own leg. Just something to keep the ribbon still. You fold the tulle in half and tuck the loop under the waistband as shown in the photo above.

Then simply take your loose ends and place them through the loop over the top of the waistband. This makes your knot.

Then pull your knot tight. The tighter the knot the more you will fit around the waistband and the fuller your tutu skirt will be.

It’s also worth considering that the knots will be visible at the waistband so try to keep them neat and all the same way.

 And then simply repeat again and again until the desired length of waistband is full. I used a variety of different colours and I kind of got into a pattern with mine so that they were mixed up but still even.

The different effects you can achieve with the colours is only limited by what you want to achieve. You could do all one colour, alternating colours, or a random mixture of colours.

 Then all that’s left to do is find a little cutie to model your creation for you.

Lucy x

Lucy, thank you so much for sharing your tutorial with Style My Party, it just shows that to have such an impressive tutu is as easy as 6 easy steps.

This means there are lots of little girls out there who don’t have to just dream of wearing one.

You can pop over to visit Lucy at

Dear Beautiful

Such a lovely family blog which follows Lucy and her family on their parenting journey, it’s a pleasure to read and you will adore the photographs.