Because I can

Ideas pop into my head all the time. Sometimes the good ones stick around and sometimes they pop back out. I had a shower epiphany I couldn’t shake and thought it was such a fantastic idea that I told my entire family- Fabric paper airplanes! I was met with silence and an “okay, you do that then”.

They didn’t get it. I’m not sure I get it, but do you really have to? They’re just cute.

I thought about keeping them to myself and have been making them since January, you can tell I made a few for Valentines day. I don’t want to be the only crazy making these so here’s how to make them, because you can to dang it.

Please do not copy or sell my tutorial or the template used in the tutorial. If you’d like to blog about this feel free, but please link back here and give proper credit. Please do not copy the entire tutorial to your blog, site, and so forth. Hate to be a pain but it’s become an issue (and a pet peeve).

*Fabric Airplanes*

Materials-

Two 5” squares of fabric per plane

Wonder under or another brand of double sided, paper backed, fusible adhesive

Iron and ironing board & glue gun.

A copy of the template below printed at 5”, cut out.

1. With your iron on the cotton setting iron the wonder under to the wrong side of one square of fabric. Peel off the backing and iron on your other square of fabric to the backside of your first fabric, making a fabric-fusible sandwich. This should all be one piece now.

2. Line up the bottom and side of your template with your fabric and cut out, making kind of a house shape. Save the triangles for later ;).

3. Fold your fabric in half vertically and iron, making a nice crease. The side facing you will be the inside so if you have a favorite print make sure it’s facing the ironing board before you continue.

4. Fold the side in until you line up with the middle crease. Press. Looking familiar huh. Do this with both sides.

5. Fold in half again and fold one side towards the outside. Do the same with the other side making your wings.

6. Viola`, It’s all folded and pretty. Now add a dab of hot glue in the middle or stitch closed.

If you’d like to add a message to yours, stamp on some twill tape or ribbon and tuck it in the back of your aircraft before you glue or stitch it closed.

They also make a really cute bunting. I did this on my sewing machine stitching through some clouds I cut out of embossed papers with white thread on top and blue thread in my bobbin. I didn’t stitch the planes though, I just glued those puppies on when the clouds were stitched. This is where your little saved triangles come in if you want to use them- awh!

Have a fantastic Tuesday and please send me some pictures if you make some!

On a similar note, how do you feel about flickr groups? I thought about adding one to the blog for all the projects that are made using my tutorials but I’m not sure anyone would upload to it. Would you? Do you like looking through them? Any thoughts, good or bad, would be appreciated!

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