Outfit of the day: finished flamingo's

After seeing this blog by Sew Retro Rose I got inspired. She had got these lovely flamingo's on her cardigan and I fell completely in love with them. So I took some of her inspiration and tried to recreate these flamingo applications. I searched the web for flamingo images and a came across this one.

After some modification I transformed the image to this. I liked it better for the wing to be horizontal and I wanted it to have some sort of tail feathers.

I cut out the different pieces of the drawing and copied them on the felt. First I hand sewn all the pieces of felt together and after that I placed the finished flamingo on my newly made skirt. Because although they look wonderful on the cardigan in the original idea, I liked them better on a skirt.

I choose a mint green gingham fabric that I bought recently on the Noordermarkt for only 1 euro per metre! I made a full circle skirt with it, complete with a little pocket (the first I have ever made!).

So this is a close-up of the finished result. Both flamingo's are all hand sewn to the skirt.

Now I'm just hoping that I won't stain the skirt too easily, because I don't know what the felt will do in the laundry. Luckily I already survived a meal of greasy hamburgers without messing up my skirt :-).

So today I wore an complete outfit with the flamingo skirt and asked my Mum to make some pictures of me in their backyard. Finally some change in scenery for my photos ;-)

Skirt: homemade

Top: H&M

Shoes: Schoenenreus

Hairflowers: New Yorker and H&M