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Adding some Flare to your feathers.
I posted a hand drawn version of how to make this kind of feather,
I was testing out some fabrics I had to see if they will make good feathers and found that many kinds of fabric do work well,
I'll post lots of Alt Versions of these as I'm doing a work shop with a bunch of peopel mixing and matching styles and colors.
Here I go into patterns, decorations.
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Kinhime Dragon favorited Fake Feathers With Patterns 25 Oct 22:35
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Step 1
First off when cutting your strips its important to make sure you have the grain of the fabric going the right way and try to follow it, I put a line of chalk.
Normally you would want 2 or more layers of fabric lined up as well as you can manage. *Remember no one is perfect, I'll show you how to fix "mistakes" lower down.
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Step 2
For plain feathers start here...
For Feathers with other colors added Start at I use a very short zigzag stich, step 5If you notice I use a clear foot what has a space for thicker things to pass under, As this makes most of the projects I do easier, Not required.
Try the shortest stich lengeth you can manage and try to keep in mind the width of the center of the feather is realitive to its over all size. So for between 1-2 inch I use 2MM
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Step 4
If your making feathers one at a time from a strip you've sewn a tight zigzag all the way down all you do is cut them to about the right size.
Now this is where your style really comes in, the shape of the feathers can be wide and short or long and thin.
*There is going to have to be some advanced Feather Decorations but here is the basics.
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Step 5
You've got your feather strips cut but not sewn yet, You want to add some colors.
If you wnat to do stripes, it is easier to cut a wider peice then you need, If you wnat lots of little stripes You could use a solid layer and later on pull out threads to Reveal another color. Think Oreo You pull out black threads to show the white.
If you want the Tip of the feather or in my case a dot of another color, You want to find the grain mark it and cut it out so that it is up right following the grain.
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Step 8
As your working with fabric that frays,
you should start seeing threads coming unwoven from the edges, work them off carefully as if you pull to hard you can pull out threads you didn't mean too.Work on the smaller shapes first, Their easiest to mess up.
I found that folding the other layers back makes it easier to pick out the threads.