Hey everyone, I'm Lizfaerie, and today I'm going to show you how I made these Butterfly
wings!
This tutorial is going to be a little different than my usual videos, because this is going
to be a sewing project.
In my other video, I showed you how I made these small basic wings for a doll.
In this video, I'll show you how I made these full size costume Monarch Butterfly wings.
Some things you'll need for this tutorial are:
A sewing needle A pair of scissors
Some regular pins, and some flat pins Craft wire.
I'm going to use this 22 gauge wire, because that's what I already have.
Its a little thin, so I'll be layering the wire to give it more strength.
You'll also need something to cut your wire.
You'll need some tulle in the main color of your butterfly wings.
I'll be using a yard of orange tulle.
I have this Styrofoam board I'm going to use to pin all around the outline of my wing design.
You could use a cushion, or cardboard, or a mattress.
I had this foam leftover from a purchase, so I thought I'd put it to some use.
You'll also need a template to base your wings on.
If you like, you can just look online for a set of wings that you like, and use that.
Or you could use the templates I made.
In my other video I used this simple pattern that I made, inspired by Tinkerbell.
In this part I'm going to use this Monarch Butterfly wing template I made.
You can find these pictures by clicking the link at the top of the screen.
That will take you to my website, where you can download the images.
If you like you can use regular sewing thread to fasten the tulle to the frame.
I used black thread for my Monarch wings.
If you like, you could also use embroidery floss.
Just make sure you're using a color that matches the edges of your wing design.
And to decorate the wings, I'll be using a few different colors of DMC brand embroidery
floss.
If you want, though, you could use regular thread for the entire project.
For my basic wings, I used just 2 of this shiny mint green floss, since the wings were
so small (DMC brand #E3849).
For my full size Monarch wings, though, I used 4 of this shiny black floss (DMC brand
#S310), 4 of this orange floss (DMC brand #606), 1 shiny white floss (DMC brand #S712),
and 1 shiny yellow floss (DMC brand #S3820).
If you're making a different style of wings, you can use different colors, but you may
need different amounts of each depending on your chosen design.
And I'm going to sew my wings onto this green shirt when I'm finished.
I cut the bottom of the shirt into a leafy pattern.
I'm going to begin by printing out my wing designs.
There are several ways you can do this.
First I'm going to open the template I want to print in Microsoft Paint.
If you're using a different type of computer, the program you have installed may be different.
I'm going to use the upper and lower half template of the wings, so that the image will
come out bigger.
But if you want to make smaller wings, you should use the full wing template.
I go into more detail about making the smaller wings in my other video.
If you're making full size wings, make sure to go into preferences and switch settings
to "Landscape" rather than "Portrait" take up more of the paper.
If you want to save on ink, select the "Draft" setting.
And to save color ink, select the "Black/Gray scale" setting.
If you want, you could make the wings even larger.
To do that, you could to go into "Page Setup", and find the "Fit To Pages" boxes.
Then enter 2 by 1, or 2 by 2, to enlarge the picture, and use either landscape or portrait,
depending on how big you want the picture to be.
But if you do that, you'll have to tape your papers together to form the full wing, and
you'll have to use more material.
So I'm not going to do that.
I'm just going to print each upper and lower half of the wings on the "Landscape" setting.
And if you like, you could color in the design using markers.
If you're doing this, make sure to be careful about the color bleeding through to whatever
is under your paper.
Since I used markers to color in my design, I can see all the lines on the other side
of the paper, which will make it easier to follow the pattern on the other side.
Now I'm ready to start making my wings.
First, I'm going to shape the wire by pinning all around the edges of my design, through
the paper, into my Styrofoam board, just like I did in my other video.
Then I'm going to wrap my wire around the pins to copy the outline of the wings.
I'm going to do this for all 4 parts of the wing.
If you want to see how I did this in more detail, see my other video.
Now that I have all my wire frames shaped and cut, I'm going to cut my tulle, the same
way I did in my other video.
Since with tulle, you get a more vivid color if you layer it, I'm going to use 4 layers
of tulle for each wing.
I already cut 4 pieces of tulle that are a little bigger than my wire frame.
I'm going to make sure none of the material is wrinkled.
Then I'm going to pin the tulle down around my design, just like I did in my other video.
And cut through all 4 layers, with about 1/8 of an inch of excess all the way around.
Then I'm going to place a few pins through all 4 layers, to keep them together while
I cut the rest of my tulle.
I'm going to do this 2 times for the top of the wing, and 2 times for the bottom of the
wing, so that I have 4 layers of tulle for each part.
Next I'm going to roughly sew the tulle around the wire frame, just like I did in my other
video, except this time I'm using black thread to match the Monarch design.
But you can use any color you like to match your wing design.
I'm going to sew the tulle to all 4 of my wing frames.
And just like in my other video, I'm going to cover up the wire frame with thread.
I'm going to use my regular black thread.
If you want to finish faster, you could use 2 or 3 threads for this part.
I'm going to use 2 threads, since I'm making larger wings.
And then I'm going to use 1 thread of my shimmery black embroidery floss to add some glitter
to the edges of the wing.
Again, if you want you could use 2 threads if you want.
For this part, I'm just going to use 1.
I'm going to do this to all the wire frames
Now I've sewing all my wire frames.
Now its finally time to decorate the wings.
To make it easier to work around the paper, I'm going to cut away the excess.
Then I'm going to line up the frame with the paper design.
And I'm going to use a couple of long, flat pins to attach the paper to the tulle temporarily.
I'm going to use 1 thread of embroidery floss to copy the design of the wing onto the tulle.
I'm going to start with the orange part of the design first, so I'll use my orange floss.
So I'm going to stitch through the paper, following my template, and copy the design.
I'm going to begin with a running stitch, going back and forth through the paper to
create a broken line.
I'm going to pull the thread until there's about an inch of the tail left at the end.
Then I'm going to stitch back through the running stitches I just made, filling in the
gaps, just to secure the thread in place.
Then I'm going to cut off the tail, so that it's hidden in the tulle.
And now I'm going to do a back stitch all the way around the shape.
First I'm going to move my thread to the back, the side with the paper.
I'm going to stitch a line up through the paper along the orange line of the design.
And then, on the other side, stitch into the end of the line of stitches I've already made,
to elongate that line.
Next, on the back side, I'm going to space the needle out for about a quarter to an eighth
of an inch, and push it up, again through the paper, following the line of my design.
Then I'm going to stitch back into the end of the last stitch I made on the other side,
back down through the paper.
And then, once again, I'm going to space the needle out for another quarter to an eighth
of an inch, following the orange line.
And push it up through the paper.
Then stitch back into the end of the next stitch.
And I'm going to continue to do that until I've gotten all the way around this line of
my design.
If you run into the edge or run out of thread, sew the end in by stitching through the lines
you just made for about an inch using a running stitch.
Then stitch back the other way for about an inch, through the tulle and the stitches you've
already made, but not through the paper, again using a running stitch.
Then cut off the thread, so that the end is hidden in the line.
Then start again the same way you started before, with a running stitch.
Then continue to back stitch around the shape.
Once I sew my design down to the tulle, I'm going to remove the pins.
I'm going to do that with all the orange spots.
And all the yellow spots.
And some of the bigger white spots, using those same colors of my embroidery floss.
If the rest of the white dots are too small to outline, you could mark them with a couple
of stitches, and just sew over them later.
Or, you could outline them with black thread instead, so that the dots aren't as bulky
when you finish.
This will make it a little tougher to remove the paper at the end, but it will look a lot
neater.
Alright, now I'm done copying the design.
Now I'm going to gently tear the paper away from the stitches on all my wing pieces.
This will make it a lot easier to remove the paper than if I wait until I'm done filling
in all the colors.
And now I'm going to fill in the colors of the design.
I'm going to fill in the yellow spots first.
So I'm going to insert my needle into one of the yellow spots, and leave about a half
inch or so of the tail.
Then do a running stitch along the yellow outline that I've already created.
And then stitch back the other way, through the other stitches, to fasten the thread.
And now, to fill in the yellow spots, I'm going to keep adding lines to the inside of
the shape until I get to the middle.
I'm not going to cover up the tulle entirely, because I want to try to maintain the transparency
of the tulle, but if you prefer, you can cover the entire area with thread.
I'm going to do this for every yellow spot of the wing.
Then I'm going to do the orange spots, in exactly the same way.
If you want, you don't have to sew into the orange spots since the tulle is already orange,
if you want the wings to be more transparent.
But I'm going to sew mine a little, just to add more color.
Now I'm going use my black embroidery floss to fill in the black areas of the design.
I filled in the larger white spots that I outlined the same way.
And for all the tiny white dots, I'm just going to stitch over the marks that I made,
in a circle shape.
Or if you outlined them in black, just fill in the spaces with white stitches.
Alright, I've finished filling in all the colors for the top right wing.
Now I'm going to do the same thing for all the wing pieces.
Here are 2 of my finished wing pieces, the top and bottom wing.
I'm going to use more of my black embroidery floss, you can use thread if you want.
And I'm going to match up the top and bottom of each part of the wing, and sew them together
along the edge to create a full wing.
Now I have 2 full wings.
Next I'm going to sew the wings onto a shirt.
I've already marked the shirt where I want to place the wings, just behind each shoulder
blade.
So I'm going to pin the wings onto the shirt, at the place where I want them to sit, making
sure to align them symmetrically, and to only pin through the back side of the shirt.
And now I'm just going to use my black thread to sew each of the wings onto each side of
the shirt.
I'm going to sew the wings down along the inside edge, and down the middle, where I
sewed each side of the wing together, for a few inches.
And now my wings are done!
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
If you did, give it a "like" or share it on social media.
If you want to see how I made these smaller, doll size wings, check out my other butterfly
wing tutorial by clicking the link at the end of the video.
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