As The Wooden Spoons Rests: June 2013

So.... I've been a bit busy. I have a quick minute now and thought I would share this with you....

How to turn a receiving blanket into a

Butterfly

It's that time of year again.....where winter fun collides with summer time . So there are lots of baby showers to go to.

I have seen so many requests for how to make a diaper cake

and how to fold the cute little cupcakes made out of onesies.

best tutorial I found...

http://club.chicacircle.com/cupcake-onesies-gift-idea/
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Oh and the bike my daughter in law made out of all the baby things is awesome!

I have a shower to go to this weekend ..and I wanted to do some fun things with the gifts.

onesise in a cupcake box

blanket/butterfly as a bow

It's for a girl so butterflies came to mind... I looked all over ... not one site, blog, or tutorial anywhere. Not even a picture on Pinterist, OK not any I liked much....

So I decided to make one up..... I use to have a working brain... before kids and work and "he who never get's his way" sucked it dry.... lol not really but it does seem that way at times.....

This is what I came up with....

Not to fancy or hard to do... and I bet someone will come along and say ..

I did that first...or I can do that better....

but I couldn't find it when I needed it so.........

Go for it....

I like better

almost as much as I like chocolate

and if you did it first ...well you should have made it easier to search.

Oh and pfffffffttttt.

Here is you materials list....

1. A receiving blanket
2. 4 or 10 clear rubber bands (sometimes they brake)
3. 2 safety pins
4. 2 Pom-poms
5. 1 pipe cleaner
6. A pen, pencil, or Sm. wooden dowel etc.
7. Four legged helper ( optional )

Optional
Helper

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Open receiving blanket and smooth flat
{iron if you are the type} I'm not.

Fold in half...

now fan fold in quarters or fourths {how ever you wish to think of it..}

It should look like this.....

Now fold this long way toward the other end stopping about 2.5" (2 1/2 in.) ... like so......you will see why in just a few...

Decided how big you want your "wings"

Now roll from folded edge, at a slight angle til you reach this point... See how the ends come out even as you roll.

Cool uh?

{I roll with the curved towards me so that the bottom wings will have the curved edge. }

Now you get to use the clear "ouch-less" rubber bands for hair. Put one on the tapered end of your "butterfly" this is his tail....

Fold back the ends of the blanket like so and even up the "wings So that there is the same amount of fabric on both sides of the body.

With the tail away from you, pull another rubber band over it and all the way over what will be the head.

Now use one more rubber band to secure the head like you did for the tail.

Like this.....

peel one of the edge layers on the head back over the rubber band (you will see why later).

You are starting to see how this will look like a butterfly aren't you....

Now for the wings ...

body on top ....tail away from you... fold the top edge of blanket to you and slightly under edge of body.

Holding the corner points of blanket ( wing tips) and body gently pull rounded edges of blanket out and way from you. To form the bottom half of wings.

Now to finish the wings....

You will need the last clear rubber band. Pinch the wings about mid-body and slip (OK maybe more like wrestle) the rubber band over top wings and body.

Like so >>