These were such fun to make. The dresses are simply 15 stitches on size 1 needles. You start with a couple rows of garter stitch (2 to 4, your choice) then continue in stockinette until you reach a length you like that comes just up to the bust, bind off on both sides leaving 5 live stitches in the center. Continue in garter stitch for 2 to 3 more rows then bind off. Seam up the back and attach straps to tie around the neck. That's it! :)
Now the wings are a different matter. Once you've finished the dresses you can attach wings of your choice. I used E6000 to attach these wings and it works really well. For those who don't know, E6000 is an industrial strength adhesive and it can glue just about anything to anything. It's excellent stuff and I use it in many of my crafting projects. The wings I used are those silk flower butterflies that have recently been showing up in silk flower bushes and garlands. I'd been seeing a lot of them at Micheals lately and since I needed some flowers for another project I saved the butterfly wings for just this purpose. The swap finally gave me the excuse I was looking for to put them to use. If anyone wants to use wings like this, it might be a good idea to fray check the outer edge of the wings (I did) because just like silk flowers they will fray a bit with repeated handling.
This was such fun... now what other Mythical Garden critters could I make... gnomes? sprites? pixies? hmmmm... I'll have to think on it. :)
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