A Quick Crinoline or tutu

Get a LOT of netting. Like.. 5-6 yards worth. (Luckily, this stuff is cheap. Get more if you want it. This skirt would be really cool with 10 yards, I bet. (I haven't tried it. Yet.) Leave it folded up the long way (the way it comes off the bolt, unless you want a long net skirt, at which point, you need to buy a lot more fluff.)

Make a waistband. I'm cheesy and just use plain elastic, but you can make a nice one.

Cartridge pleat the fluff onto the band. All done. :)

There is a good tutorial on cartridge pleating on The Elizabethan Costuming page. For this project, you don't need to be THAT precise, but it never hurts.

You can get more advanced and make the fluff into several layers of circle skirt (though it flops down pretty fast), but it's faster (and a bit more effective) just to pleat it.

This is good for underskirts. If you combine the two methods, it makes a pretty tutu. (circles on top, pleating, circles underneath.)

Go ahead and cut the hem to the length you need it, make it jagged, have fun -- it's *your* skirt! The nicest thing about netting is that it doesn't need to be hemmed.

Oh yeah, and I'm weaing a skirt made with this method in this pic.