No Sew Tulle Tutu Tutorial ⋆ Design Mom

Here are simple directions for a no-sew tutu made of tulle. This is a pretty little project to gift to a future ballerina, to use in a costume, or to add to the dress-up bin. It’s simple enough that even a non-crafyt person can make it. The materials are very inexpensive, but they look great.

Easy instructions below.

Materials for No Sew Tutu

-Piece of elastic long enough to fit around the waist
-1 25-yard spool of 6-inch wide tulle (or two of these if you want the tutu to be extra full)
-3 spools of 1/4″ satin ribbon, 3 yards each
-Scissors

Instructions for No Sew Tutu

Step One: Cut the elastic to waist size and pin together with a safety pin or a few stitches.

Step Two: Cut 35 two-foot lengths of tulle from a 6-inch-wide tulle ribbon roll (they don’t have to be perfectly exact). Then cut

For the tutu pictured, I used an entire roll of champagne colored shimmer tulle (25 yards). It provided 35 pieces, that were each about 2 feet long.

You can also find 6-inch-wide tulle in bigger spools of 100 yards or more. So if you’re making more than one, watch for a larger spool.

Step Three: fold each tulle piece in half, and then thread the ends through itself around the elastic. To demonstrate, I’m using a spare piece of elastic and a spare piece of ribbon (not the same elastic and tulle I used in the tutu), but this is the exact same technique you would use with a strip of tulle.

Fold your piece of tulle ribbon in half, place the loop end under the elastic.

Pick up the loose ends of the ribbon. Pull them over the elastic and through the loop end of the ribbon.

Pull the loose ends of the tulle ribbon to tighten it around the elastic. And that’s it!

Step Four: Repeat step 3 with the rest of the tulle ribbon pieces, and do the same thing with satin ribbon pieces as accents. You can keep adding pieces of ribbon and tulle until the tutu is as full as you’d like.

For the tutu pictured at the top, we used an entire roll of champagne colored shimmer tulle (25 yards). It provided 33 lengths (about 2 feet long each) to tie to the waist band. We also used 3 rolls of satin ribbon in peach, cream and sage green. They provided 11 lengths each and were attached between the tulle pieces for accents. The materials were under $5 total.

You can make the tutu any length you like, by using longer or shorter pieces of tulle. You can make it as full as you’d like by adding more tulle pieces. And you can create different looks by choosing wider pieces of satin ribbon.