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Super Cute Butter-by Skirt

I came across this blog called “My Inner Need To Create”  by Jessica.  She is a really creative woman.  There are some really great projects on her blog.

She was fetured on Project Run & Play! Warning… if you look at this site you will be inspired to make about 100 new skirts. One of them is the butterfly skirt that I saw and fell in love with.  Jessica did a great job.  So that was my inspiration for this project.

The skirt was cut out of some denim-ish spandex -ish fabric that I have and am not sure where is came from.  I folded it in half and drew a quarter of a skirt on it.  Something like this….

From A to B should be a quarter of the waist measurement + seam allowance (SA).  From B to C is the desired length of the skirt + SA and hemming. The measurement from C to D will determine the fullness of the skirt.  For a flow-y skirt - double the quartered waist length, for a narrow skirt this measurement will be close in length to the A to B measurement.  Do that whole process twice!

Once the skirt was put together and I added some darts to the top it was time for a butterfly. Using black Broad Cloth and fusible web I traced out a cute butterfly.  After cutting it I ironed it onto some cute colorful fabric. (That Tiny picked out) Then added some fusible web to the back of that and ironed it to the skirt. 

 

 

I sewed around the edges so that it will make it though the washer.  It turned out so cute!

Don’t ya think?

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Butterflies

My neighbour, and good friend, was asked to create the decorations for her church’s VBS.  She is very creative and come up with a great way to make butterflies that will hang from the ceiling.  She wanted to make butterflies with stain glass wings.

I was excited when she enlisted my help.

We started with a bucket of used and broken crayons, black construction paper, waxed paper, an iron and a blender.

First we sorted the crayons into groups of colors

Then we need to breakdown the crayons so that they could be melted between the sheets of waxed paper.

 So we figured a blender would do the job. 

This is the purple crayons with bits of white to help lighten it up.

After making a butterfly template we laid waxed paper over the outline and sprinkled on the crayons and covered it with another piece of waxed paper.  It didn’t take many crayons to cover the wing.

With a quick press from the hot iron the crayons melt and the colors blend together making a stained glass effect.

 

There are two butterfly outlines per butterfly.

 The center or ’body’ of the butterfly was glued first than the wax paper ’wings’ were cut so that they were a little smaller than the outline.

This way the construction paper would stick together with glue and hold the waxed paper in place.

This entire project was made using stuff we had around the house, so it cost $0 to make.  That is a great price! It was also a fun project to do with the my girls.  They loved chosing to colors and seeing them melt together.