How to pancake a Tutu - a tutorial

Here's the post I just know you've been waiting for. Now read on and concentrate because I don't want you saying in time to come "I wished I had listened to Farmers Wife because I really need to pancake a tutu and I don't know how"....

This is how the tutu arrived, all folded up and floppy.

Here is the tutu gun, which deposits little plastic tags in the tulle, keeping the layers together.

First of all, I layed the tutu on the table,upside down and fanned the layers out flat.

You take the gun and the very big needle and push it into the tulle (sacre bleu) and squeese the trigger which releases the little white plastic tag.



You can faintly see the tag deposited in the tulle....



I tried to keep to a pattern so it looked tidy, although you can't see the tags once the tutu is the right way up.



And here it is, the corrrect way up and flattened out, held in position by the tags.


This is the tutu top that Miss D will be wearing next week at the dance festival. It's gorgeous, isn't it! I only sat the top on the tulle, so there will only be a little edge of white tulle showing under the blue edge....