How To Add A Mermaid Bottom To A Dress

Learn how to make a mermaid tail skirt with tulle! Information technology's perfect for a handmade costume or simply dress up time, and it's piece of cake to run and play in!

My daughters love dressing up and do whatsoever risk they can. It makes Halloween costumes extra heady!

Currently one of my daughters wears dress-ups equally her vesture. I honey adding pieces that they can play with like this mermaid tail skirt with tulle!

I fabricated my daughter a DIY mermaid costume and a mermaid dress a couple of years ago with a very simple how-to, but this is an in depth tutorial of how to brand the brim.

Especially since I have two daughters that both love to be mermaids!

Practise you dearest sewing mermaid projects? Check out one of these:

skeleton mermaid costume
DIY mermaid inspired dress
mermaid tote bag design
mini felt mermaid softies
DIY mermaid skirt

This is the original skirt that I made. I used a scale print stretch fabric that was white and gold. I had the "indicate" of the tail go down in the front end and up in the back.

The gathered tulle tail is a pretty mint. I made the point go down for the look of a mermaid tail, and upwardly for the ease of move and running. (She ran to each house when we were flim-flam-or-treating!)

I had extra scale fabric so I made a rash guard that she actually wore all summer for swimming. It's a great add-on to this costume though and makes it look seamless!

This is the new brim that I made for today's sewing tutorial. I used a calibration impress stretch fabric that was black and gold, and the gathered tulle tail is white.

I made the "point" of the tail become upward in the forepart and down in the back. This look is more like the classic mermaid silhouette manner, but moves just besides every bit the other version.

The sequin top was the original elevation I fabricated for the first Halloween costume. I used sequin material with pale stretch cloth underneath. Then I added a tiny gathered tulle skirt to the hem of the shirt.

How to make a mermaid tail brim

supplies

Scale print stretch fabric* (how to sew with knit cloth)
3 or more yards of tulle*
1 inch rubberband* here are some ideas for finding elastic to reuse
Sewing tools

Measure the hips of you or your daughter. This will be the width of the skirt. Divide it in half to cut information technology out on the fold.

Measure out from the waist to the knee for the upper betoken of the brim. Measure out from the waist to the mid-calf for the lower bespeak of the brim.

Whichever point y'all desire to be in the front end should be cutting on the fold. The point you lot want in the back should be cut on the seam.

Cutting half-dozen to eight pieces of tulle that measures from the knee to the floor. I used the width of the tulle for maximum volume.

Pivot the brim seam right sides together and run up with a zigzag run up or serger. Finish the raw edges if desired.

Lay out all the pieces of tulle on top of each other matching up both brusk edges. Pick up ane side and match it up with the other side and pivot.

Sew with a straight stitch and five/8 inch seam allowance. This will form a giant tube.

Cut elastic to fit your waist or your daughters waist snugly. Overlap the edges 1/4 inch and stitch to form a tube.

Pin the elastic to the top edge of the skirt distributing evenly. Zigzag the elastic to the skirt.

Fold the elastic over then that it'south enclosed in material and zigzag in identify.

Run up two or three rows of basting stitches forth one long border of the tulle.

Pull the bobbin threads to gather the tulle. Gather it until it's a smaller circumvolve most the size of the skirt.

Divide the lesser of the skirt into four equal sections. Divide the tulle into four equal sections. Match upwards the 4 sections of both skirt pieces. Distribute the gathers evenly.