Fairy Factory

Well, I still can't get to Tedros, so his commission continues to be on hold. In the meantime I've started a bunch of BID fairy costumes. I've gone through my flower petal collection and the box of nylon tricot to see what colour combinations are possible. I love the 'apple blossom' colours of the first one I made for Elin, but those were the last of the gold-edged pink & white petals. So I'm trying to come up with some other nice combinations.

My girls are all still in their Canada Day outfits, and I didn't want to undress any of them yet, so I'm using Ringo as my model for now. He's not too happy about it, but I figure he might as well make himself useful around here.

The biggest challenge will be the wings.  Up until now, I've always sewed wings from a double layer of fabric, and inserted the wires afterwards.  I like the look of the butterflies I bought many years ago for a mobile project that never materialized, but I feel I really need to make the wings to go with these outfits myself. So I'm using the butterflies for inspiration, trying to figure out how to glue a single layer of fabric onto the wire, then embellishing with paint and glitter. 

I can already imagine all the fun photos that might be possible with so many fairies, but then I started thinking it might be nice to have fairies of different sizes. I tried one of the dresses on a KID and it looked wonderful on her - although somewhat short. I thought it might be nice to lengthen the fairy bodice a smidge and make a couple of versions with longer skirts for the KIDs.  Then I thought fairy costumes would be perfect for Cinnamon and Tillie as well. That brings the tentative goal up to ten now!  Makes me feel like a fairy factory! Oh well, as long as Tedros can't come out of the closet, I have plenty of time to work on fairies. So, I'll see how many I can actually make - or how long it takes before I get totally bored and fed up, and forceably pry Tedros out of the cupboard just so I can get started on that costume for him instead.