Just Halloween Crafts

Love butterfly crafts? Why not make some fun no-sew hanging butterflies as decorations for Halloween. Make one larger statement piece or make lots in smaller sizes to dot around a room. I've made this hanging butterfly in a bright pumpkin orange felt fabric overlapped onto dark gray with a black body section. Also try combinations with purple and green wings for colors that work well with this occasion. This makes for a fun hanging decoration that can be suspended from a ceiling or archway as if in flight or hung flat down a wall. They also make great motifs too for other craft projects. 

Butterflies are a real favorite crafting theme for me and so I could not resist coming up with something on this for the Halloween season. This page provides you with a free printable design for a large butterfly silhouette in black and white. As you'll see, the design is a half butterfly and that is so I could make this as big as possible to print across a standard letter size or A4 sheet. The half design is super easy to use once transformed into a template (how to listed on the page) where you can simply flip the template over to complete this beautiful winged insect.

My daughter needed a cloak for a school event and rather than go out and buy one I decided to make my own. I had a large piece of old green and gold curtain fabric that was ideal to use for this project. Without having any pattern to follow, making the cloak all came down to measurements and guesswork but we got there in the end. Follow my post so you can see how to sew a cloak without having a pattern too. This post explains how I made the hooded cloak from start to finish. Hopefully you will find this useful if you need to make up a DIY one in a hurry yourself. I worked out how it was done so you don't have to.