Pheasant Feather Dresses

We have seen so much beautiful feather apparel that sometimes I wonder if I have seen it all. But of course that’s never true because there is always something new and exciting that people are doing with feathers.

My latest discovery was of some beautiful pheasant feather dresses that were paraded down the catwalk, and I am not talking about the kind of feather apparel that we saw on the

cat walk at the Victoria Secret show in New York.

I actually found three dresses that were made with real pheasant feathers. They were all being talked about on other blogs that deal with fashion unlike this blog which is all about the feathers.

The first one that caught my eye was this dress featured onfashionisdanger.wordpress.com in this post that they wrote about the designer Sarah Burton who is the head designer for Alexander McQueen.

Here is a picture of the dress that I think is beautiful.

The second pheasant feather dress that is also breathtaking was on formzine.com in a post by Sarah Rabinowe.

Check out this piece made by Irina Shabayeva.

And last is this piece I found on inspirationenthusiast.com made by Monsieur Yves Saint Laurent.

I put these dresses in the order that I liked them. But which do you like best?

How To Make A Feather Fan like the One Julia Roberts Is Warring In “Mirror Mirror”

Ok it`s actually pretty easy all you need is a hot glue gun, some card board, a pensile, a small plate and 28 dyed white peacock tail feathers.

Trace a circle in the card board using the plate and the pensile. Cut out the circle bend it in half and cut it so that you have two perfect half circles. Sort the feathers into 14 pairs of equal length feathers, trim them when needed so that they should be the same length. Now lay out the feathers on the card board. The longest pair should be side by side in the center of the half circle and the smallest pair should be one on either end of the half circle. Space the feathers evenly and so the hairs of each feather are over lapping. Once you have all the feathers laid out nice and even put some hot glue on each feather where it is on the card board. Do this fast so that the glue doesn’t dry. When all the feathers have glue on them press the other half circle on top of the feathers and the hot glue. Wait for the glue to dry and then glue the other half circle on so that the feathers are sandwiched in place. Once its dry you can have it put inside your dress.

Enjoy!

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Dyed White Peacock Tail Feathers, Evil Queens & Julia Roberts

Dyed White Peacock Tail Feathers, Evil Queens & Julia Roberts

‘Mirror Mirror” is the fairy tale story of “Snow White” told with a nice twist. Who would have thought that they would choose Julia Roberts to play the part of the evil queen? I actually think that she is great for the part because the evil queen in the old school Disney version was ugly and scary looking. At least Julia is actually pretty so may she would be the fairest in the land if it wasn’t for that brat snow white. Any way Julia looks great in here gown decorated with dyed white peacock tail feathers. If you are making a gown for some fancy occasion here is how you can make that same feather fan and then sow it into your dress, or you can have the seamstress do it for you.

How To Make A Feather Fan like the One Julia Roberts Is Warring In “Mirror Mirror”

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making online purchases online is that they are afraid that they are not

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How To Make A Feather Handbag

Here are some easy to follow directions on how to make a beautiful feather handbag. All you need is a clutch style handbag, two feather boas, a pair of scissors and a hot glue gun.

Cut the boas into strips the length of the width of the handbag. Put a horizontal line of hot glue along the top of the handbag and attach a strip of boa to the handbag. Now depending on how thick you want the feathers to be you could space the boa strips. Cover the whole bag on both sides and you are done.

If you want you could buy two different color boas and alter them or make the sides two different colors.

Also if you want you could use lose feathers to cover the handbag.

If you want you could also just attach a nice peacock feather to the handbag with the hot glue gun.

Enjoy your new bag!!

How To Make A Feather Tree

Germans started to make their Christmas trees out of feather because they didn’t want to chop down real trees. The process of making these really cool trees is pretty simple and I am going to explain it to you here. Also at the end of this post you can find a YouTube video where you can watch how it`s done.

What you will need

1- Green feathers

2- Thick wire that you can bend but will hold its shape

3- Green floral tape

4- Small plastic berries

5- Brown crepe paper

6- Paper glue

7- Thin wire for wrapping (about 26 gauge)

8- 3 inch wood cube with a hole drilled in the center to use as a base

First measure out thirteen pieces of the thicker wire.

1 piece – 13 inches (gets 3 inches of feather wrapping)

3 pieces – 5 inches (get 2 inches of feather wrapping)

4 pieces – 6 inches (get 4 inches of feather wrapping)

5 pieces – 9.5 inches (get 5.5 inches of feather wrapping)

Now cover each piece with the green floral tape and attaché a plastic berry to the end, these are the branches of your tree. To create the leaves on the branches attach a feather to the end of the branch right under the berry attach the stem of the feather to the branch so that the hairs on the feather start by the berry and go out over the end of the branch. Wrap the feather around the branch so that the feather hairs should fan out to create the leaves. Follow the list above for how many inches of feather wrapping each branch should get.

Bend each branch except for the thirteen inch one, to a ninety degrees angle right at the end of the flower wrapping. Attach the braches to the long straight piece which is the trunk, using the floral tape. The three five inch pieces go directly under the top feather wrapping on the trunk. Then the four pieces get attached three inches under them. And the five pieces three inches under them. Put some glue along the trunk and cover the whole trunk with the brown crepe paper. Stand the tree up in the base and you are ready to decorate it.

Here is a video on how it`s done

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

How To Make A Feather Wreath For The Holidays

Here are easy to follow, step by step instructions on how to make a decorative feather wreath for this holiday season.

Things you are going to need

1- one or two green feather boas

2- green spray paint

3- hot glue gun

4- some thick red ribbon

5- five peacock eye feathers

6- five peacock swords

7- solid wreath frame

8- loose green feathers

For the frame you can use a foam tube or any other solid tube shape. If you would like to go the green rout you can cut the top rim off of a five gallon dry wall bucket and use that.

1- Paint the frame green using the spray paint and let it fully dry.

2- Using the hot glue gun attach the boas and loose feathers to the frame. Make sure that it looks nice and evenly done.

3- Trim the quills of the peacock feathers.

4- Using just a small amount of hot glue on the back side of the peacock feathers attach them to the wreath facing outward. Place them systematically (one eye feather one sword feather) around the wreath.

5- Create a hinge with the ribbon to hang the wreath where ever you would like.

Enjoy & Have A Happy Holiday Season