Halloween 2013 - Little Miss A. the Owl

For Little Miss A.'s first Halloween, I took inspiration from an animal that is common in her room, clothes, and toys: an owl!  I found some inspiration on Pinterest, and hit the fabric store.  I bought five fat quarters: a patterned yellow, patterned orange, and two solid brown for the feathers, and a solid orange for the background of the wings.  I cut out feathers, and laid them out in a Y-B-O-B repeat, with the rows forming a zig-zag pattern.  The whole back of the background (cut in a semi-circle pattern) was covered, then I attached a long-sleeved onesie to the background by the sleeves and neck.  The onesie and the front of the orange background was also covered in feathers.  I used Heat n Bond (used to essentially glue two pieces of fabric together), but didn't realize until after I had ironed everything on that it was the type that needed to be sewn down as well.  So I had to tack down every single feather...that was a lot more than I had planned on for this project.

So here she is, Little Miss A. the Owl!