Getting Crafty with my craftbox.

Here's a little known secret of about me. I have a craft box filled with good, all be it largely unfulfilled,  intentions.  Approximately, seven overly ambitious projects lay within it, in various stages of crumbled disarray.  But, not tonight. Tonight,  I focus.  Read the directions carefully.  Read twice, cut once.

With my husband out of town and my son asleep, this was going to be the night that my crafts emerge from the  box a finished project.  I sit down with my plan to create a tutu for my friend's baby-to-be.  I know that I not only lack any legitimate sewing skills, but I also lack a sewing machine.  So I chose a simple no-sew method.  Armed with nothing more than a 5-minute video on Youtube,  I begin the process and quickly realize I should have, at the very least, watched the video twice.  I could have.  I just had already fully committed to the mountain of pink tulle surrounding me and was, at this point, determined to just figure this thing out.

On paper (or on Youtube) this seemed like a no brainer.  Scissors, tulle, elastic, needle & thread, and of course a bottle of wine to help me "focus". Check, check, check, check, AND check.  I vaguely remember the woman on the video knotting the tulle around the elastic and so I knot. And knot and knot and knot until I somehow I created a really super cute tutu.  How cute you ask?  Check out my son (yes my son, you use the model you got) modeling it!

For the record, this really was a fairly easy process and it was actually fun.   AND I must say even though I used about 25 yards of tulle (I think because I didn't pay attention to the directions) this entire process took a couple of hours.  But for those hours I was in the Tutu Zone. Knotting, fluffing, creating.  It was awesome and I will do it agian for any one who wants one!