No fairy outfit would be complete without a wand. I made this one to go with the blue/turquoise wings and skirt. I used an old knitting needle for the stick and covered it with a strip of knit fabric and some ribbon, gluing here and there with a hot...

We’ve been very busy this week, today was the first I have been able to get any sewing done. I was very pleased to get this fairy skirt finished this morning. It’s to go with the fairy wings in my last post. I have used lots of layers of different...

I’m so excited. I have just made my first successful pair of fairy wings! Here is my little boy kindly modeling them for me, and yes he actually wanted to wear them. In my research on how to make fairy wings I found mostly tutorials on the wire coat...

The post about my jeans skirt has had a lot of interest so I decided to do a basic tutorial for the jeans to skirt transformation. This idea is not a new one and there are plenty of tuts and varying methods, this is the way I do it. Take an old pair...

For my next “princess” skirt for the nieces I made this ruffled one from a Barbie print curtain that my mother-in-law gave me. The curtain looked brand new, it was from the in-laws new house in the bedroom that our boys sleep in when we stay, and has...