My heart was set on making a "Dumbo Ride" themed felt skirt. I wanted my skirt to resemble the ride entirely and to seem as if the Dumbos in my skirt were in flight.
I waited until I had a ton of Joann's coupons to use for my materials...I had a couple 50% and one 60% off coupon which helped me out tremendously. I used the tutorial by Technicolor Cutie Click Here! which I used for my skirt. She gives a great tutorial on this easy circle skirt, including the right way to cut your waistline according to your measurements. I started off by buying three yard of Craft Felt, a 22'' pink nylon zipper (extra length just in case), and tons of felt squares for the multiple Dumbos I would cut out. After using Technicolor Cutie's tutorial, I had my skirt properly cut and was ready to cut out my Dumbo's .I decided to not use a cutting machine, like my Cricut, so I hand cut my Dumbo Pieces. I printed out multiple Dumbo's off the computer appropriate to size. Each layer of Dumbo was cut and I used that as my template. Although it took me quite a while to master hand cutting each small piece, it was well worth it in the end. All my pieces of Dumbo were then glued. I tried using Fabric glue, but it took too long to dry and would seep through the felt fabric. I decided instead to use a hot glue gun and that worked out much better. Without using too much glue, my felt pieces did not have any seepage of the glue.
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