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Tutorial: Making a Petticoat
Published: 2011-01-26 23:51:38 +0000 UTC; Views: 71120; Favourites: 1774; Downloads: 2884
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This tutorial took a lot longer to put together than I had imagined it would! But, I certainly hope I covered everything in a relatively easy to follow manner.
This tutorial is on how to make a simple petticoat It walks you through deciding how long you want your petticoat to be, how to do the math to figure out how much fabric you need to buy, fabric suggestions, sewing options, as well as some notes from me towards the end on adapting this to work with different styles.
Basically, I've covered everything I can possibly think of for helping you to make your own petticoat for cosplay, re-enactment, or just for fun.
In fact, you can even make this and wear it as a skirt, if you want :3
As always, there is math involved. Don't fear it, but, at the same time, I'm just going to ignore questions about it - I've tried to explain it to the best of my ability in multiple different ways. If you don't understand, I don't think I can help you any more than I have tried to already ^^
Because I'm awesome I've even included a PDF copy of this tutorial for you to download , print off and write all over.
If you claim it as your own, I shall find out and you never know when I'm going to snap...
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If I'm going to be making this petticoat to go over a hoop skirt, what mathematical adjustments would I need to make?
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How could I make the petticoat fluffier? ouo and thank you for this xD I need itΒ
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I would suggest making the bottom tier out of a double layer of tulle (one layer stacked on top of the other) - that adds a lot of fluff. If that's still not enough, add yet another layer, or make it more "dense" than my suggestions - take a look at my video tutorial on making ruffles, that can give you an idea of how to make an even denser layer at the bottom for even more fullness :3
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Amen. I looked everywhere for a tutorial that made me feel entirely sure of what I was doing and I finally found one! Thank you!
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Do you think I'd be able to make a hoopskirt using this tutorial? I've been trying to find a good tutorial so I could I have a hoopskirt for my Sandplay of the Singing Dragon (Luka) cosplay and Beatrice (Umineko) cosplay. This seems to be my best bet. Thank you!
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I always wanted one of these. This tut helped me out so much. I made my first pettiecoat summer last year. I might make one again for cosplay. Thanks so much for tut. Every helpful and easy to understand.
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Hi! I made an excel sheet to try and make this easier on myself because math BAD. Would you be able to take a peek at it to make sure it's correct? The only snag is that I couldn't figure out how to round up with unknown numbers so I had to take a few liberties.
If the chart is good I'm perfectly cool with sharing, assuming someone didn't beat me to the punch. You can email me at my user name here at gmail.com. Thanks for you help!
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Thank you for posting this. You saved me a lot of headache with the helpful math tips.
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This is absolutely precious! Thank you for sharing this.
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Not a problem at all! I'm glad to hear it!!
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I found this while googling tutorials. It's a DD so that must mean it's quite helpful. I'll try it and see how it turns out. Thanks so much.
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I needed something like this. This will come in handy when I make my own clothes!
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Is this tutorial suitable for making a Lolita bell-shaped petticoat ?
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OH MY GOSH!!! I always about doing something like this, especially since I am 300 lbs of awesome... Thank you so much for putting this up here!!!
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Awesome tutorial, definitely going to try that during the next weeks
Other question: How come the tutorial looks like that? I mean with several pages and the scrolling bar?! Do you just have to upload it as a pdf file or did you have to do some coding as well?
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PDF's should do that automatically 
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Awesome, thanks for the additional info!
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Oh, everything after the "PDF's" thing was my signature, sorry if it showed up as a message
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this tutorial looks amazing! I've been looking for layered skirts everywhere, but I had no idea on how I would make one. This really will help if I can get together enough money to buy material to make this with! ^_^ Thank you!
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I've always wondered how petticoats were made, to find it is so simply is a shock!
I doubt I will ever use this tutorial, but Thank You regardless!
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Amazing, might use this once I put myself together to start on my steam punk costume
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What a great tutorial!!! I can't wait to try it! ^^
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just wondering, what is bastie fabric? I've been looking it up online and i can't seem to find it .__.
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Oh! Bastie (I might have spelt it wrong, too) is just a really light cotton, like a finer weave muslin, but some places call bleached muslin bastie, too. It's a utility fabric, and really cheap :3
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this is the best petticoat tutorial i've ever seen
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This tutorial is amazing. You make it sound so simple! I was incredible nervous about making my first petticoat but you made it sound not as horrible as I thought it would be! Well when I start working on it I might change my mind but I can deal that with fear myself. XD
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This is the best petticoat tutorial I've seen! All the other ones I came across really hurt my head, but this one was quite easy to follow!
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Great turtorial. I'll be making a lolita dress soon so this really helps <3
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FFFFF I'M EVEN STUPIDER you are no the same person! Sorry!
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FFFFF I'M STUPID. I asked you how to make this on tumblr and I thought it was one thing without the petticoat. I thought you magically got it poofy or something!
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I'm working on this one right now as my first real sewing project....
I decided to make the bottom layer tulle-y, because we have a LOT of it from a huuuge project my mom did for a friend, and it's just been sitting around.
Sooo, the lady had bought the fabric from JoAnn's and given it to mom, and we were both surprised at how expensive the tulle was.
Anyways, I think I just found out why.... x.x I needed to know how wide it was, so I started unrolling it and all.
Well.... It's 120" wide OnO'" And VERY difficult to manage.
Of course, I unrolled a good deal of it. So I asked my borther to help me re-roll it up
I think that kind of made it worse, seeing as how my brother CANNOT fold. >.< I'll have to wait until morning so my mom can help me fold it up.
xD It's always good times when your first project is a faillllll.... <3
Hello! So I finally made my petticoat! ^^ Tulle was so hard to work with D:
You can see it here [link]
And thanks so much for the tutorial!
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