Amazing 1950s swing circle skirts for a ball with poofy petticoats. Rockability!

Step 2 Making the petticoats

As I said, we used the tutorial listed in this thread..
http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=193708.0
which is an original 1950s design, and goes along these lines:

step 1: make a circle skirt out of cotton - theres loads of tutes round these parts - you'll need to work out how long you want your finished skirt to be.

step 2: get 8 metres of tulle thats 1.8m (72 inches) wide

step 3: cut the tulle length wise into 8 strips each measuring 9inches by 8 metres

step 4: sew two strips together so you have a piece 9 inches by 16 metres and sew the remain strips together so you have a piece 9 inches by 48 metres

step 5: gather the big 48 metre piece on to the 16 metre piece - as its about 3 times as long you can pleat it - hand baste it then machine stitch

step 6: this is where i totally battled youve got to gather 16m down to about 1.5m (or what ever the circumference is at the point on your circle skirt that is 9inches from the waist) i gathered it with fishing line then sewed over it by machine, but when i cliped the fishingline it expanded to twice the length of what i wanted (so you might want to use a different method) so what i did was folded it in half and sewed it on as two layers.

But as I was making 4, I ordered in bulk 32m of netting and cut the strips along that length! We had to do this in the park it was so long!! And the gathering took forever...