- 1). Measure your child's waist and add 2 inches to this measurement. Measure the length you want your poodle skirt to be. Add 1 inch to this measurement. Write both of these measurements down.
- 2). Lay your butcher paper on a hard, flat surface to make your poodle skirt pattern. Set your compass to half the width of your child's waist measurement; this will make a circle the size of your child's waist measurement. Set the pointed end of the compass firmly in the middle of the butcher paper and rotate the pencil end around to make a circle.
- 3). Add half of your child's waist measurement to the measurement of your skirt length. Reset the compass to this new measurement. Set the pointed end of the compass in the same place as it was set when you made the first circle. Make a new circle, which will be larger than the first. Your pattern will look like a large doughnut.
- 4). Cut out the pattern on the outline of the larger circle. Cut a straight line from the outer edge up to the inner circle outline. Cut out the inner circle on the outline.
- 5). Lay your felt flat on a hard surface. Pin your pattern to the felt and cut out your pattern piece from the fabric. Make a long straight cut in the fabric from the outer edge to the inner edge as you did on the pattern piece. Unpin your pattern piece.
- 6). Fold down the upper circle edge, lower circle edge, and two straight edges (where you made your straight cut) 1/2 inch and pin into place. Sew each of these pinned edges with a 1/4-inch edgestitch to keep it in place. Turn the skirt so that the folded edges are on the inside of the skirt.
- 7). Cut a length of hook and loop tape the same length as the straight cut you made from the outer edge of the circle to the inner edge. Pin the "hook" side face up on the top side of one of the straight edges of your skirt. Pin the "loop" side face down on the underside of the other straight edge of your skirt. Sew each of these pieces into place with an 1/8-inch edgestitch on each long edge of the hook and loop tape. Remove the pins. The hook and loop edges are the close of the skirt and belong in the back.
- 8). Lay out the skirt so that the hook and loop tape is in the back. Arrange your poodle appliqué on the front of the skirt and apply glue to the back of the appliqué. Pin the poodle into place and leave the pins in for at least 12 hours until the glue is dry.
- 9). Place a piece of ribbon from the poodle's neck up to the waistband of the skirt to look like a fancy leash. Add loops in the ribbon if you desire. Glue the ribbon in place and pin to secure. Leave the pins in for at least 12 hours. Place the skirt on your daughter with the hook and loop tape on the back of the skirt.
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