Above is my first ever attempt at sewing. Katherine wanted to dress up as a fairy when we went to the Renaissance Festival this year, and rather than spending big bucks on wings I foolishly decided I could make them myself.

I took 16 gauge steel wire and bent it into shape and then sewed (yes, I sewed) the fabric she chose around it. I won't tell you how many needles I broke sewing around that wire. I DID make more than one trip to WalMart though...

Here's a close up of the stitches. Not exactly consistent, but good enough for the wings to hold together.

This is the picture of the wings she found that she wanted her wings to look like. You can see below that It wasn't EXACTLY the same, but I didn't miss it by much and she really liked them:


You can't tell it from this picture, but Katherine's wings contained "fireflies" that blinked on and off pseudo-randomly. She was quite proud of the fact that here fairy wings were the only ones there that did it. And I was quite proud of the circuit board I soldered together to make it work ;-)


Though it isn't the best picture of Katherine, you can at least see some of the fireflies lit up in this one.


And of course Aidan didn't want to be left out. He wanted to dress up as a knight. 9 sheets of fun foam later, and he was. Of course, he didn't wear the costume more than 20 minutes after we got there, but at least I can say I tried. I don't think it turned out nearly as well as the storm trooper costume I made for him for halloween (I think I still have a picture of it here).