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Tutorial: Making a Petticoat
By taeliac
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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.
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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 ^^
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Because I'm awesome 
I've even included a PDF copy of this tutorial for you to download, print off and write all over.
<div align="center">Brushes from =Lileya

<div align="center">As always, do not copy, steal, edit, redistribute or do other malicious things with or to this tutorial.
If you claim it as your own, I shall find out and you never know when I'm going to snap...
©2011 Sam Lemieux // `taeliac
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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 ^^
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I've even included a PDF copy of this tutorial for you to download, print off and write all over.
<div align="center">Brushes from =Lileya

<div align="center">As always, do not copy, steal, edit, redistribute or do other malicious things with or to this tutorial.
If you claim it as your own, I shall find out and you never know when I'm going to snap...
©2011 Sam Lemieux // `taeliac
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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

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!
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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