Tool for making Tutu's

I haven't posted in a long while. . . Life happened and all of a sudden, it's been months. . Well, I thought I would share a small hack for making tutus.

There are numerous videos about how to make the tutus themselves, so I won't go into that. But I found myself frustrated with using a chair or my leg to keep the weaved headbands still. So, I came up with this concoction.

I went to Hobby Lobby and bought a 1/2" x 36" poplar square sticks. It was a while ago but I think it was like $2. They look like this. . .

I cut a piece just about 10" and then the remaining length I just cut in half, well, I eyeballed it and failed miserably, but intended to cut it in half lol. I found 4 spare nails in my random hardware collection and did this. . . 

Pardon my awful workmanship, but I just nailed this directly into my work table. . If you don't have a work table to do that on, I suppose you could just nail it into a small 2x4 and clamp it on to your work space. The middle piece acts as a stopper when in use. I wanted to be able to "Put it away" somehow so I made sure to only have one nail in each. When I'm done, I just turn the side pieces down. Like this. . .

This has made tutu making so easy for me. It holds the elastic or headband in place so I can walk away and leave it where it is for a minute and then come back and pick up where I left off. The piece that I cut at 10" is a nice size for a small child tutu. I made a few adult ones and just added a small stopper and another leg to the right so I could do bigger ones. Like this. .

When I'm done, it folds away perfectly. Like this. . .

So, that's it. Super cheap and easy!