The wings on the butterfly are actually in one piece, there are two pieces of body sewn to it, one under and one on top. Inside butterfly wings is some wire that follows the curve and keeps it in shape, when I did the blanket stitch around then I grabbed the wire on every 4th stitch (if I did every stitch the wire would show from between the two layers). Inside the body is some wire to hold it in shape. I made it without wire at first and then it drooped to one side. So I had to force some wire into it. Next time Iīll just put wire in straight ahead, I spent way too long trying to fix the droopiness.
Dragonfly body is just a long strip that has pipe cleaner wrapped with some wool inside and the wings are sewn on top. Here wings are just one layer of felt. I sewed around the edge of wings with some silver beading wire - this keeps them stretched and even gives some room to play with angles.
And yes, Danielle, there are french knots and I just recently mastered them
What helped me was an actual person showing the how-to and then I made a tiny pipe cleaner african person whose hair is all french knots, I must have made couple of hundred of these knots..
I considered putting tiny beads there but I didnīt have any in suitable color and I didnīt want to buy any -- I am trying to reduce my crafting supplies pile before my baby comes. LOL, just yesterday I got 2 lbs of wool and 1/2 lb of roving from West Earl...
If you want I could do a craftalong for the butterfly and dragonfly, I made these for a trade and now I want some for myself too
--anu
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