Completing the Turkey Trot Costume

In order to complete the Turkey Trot costume, I needed to finish my shirt.  

Materials

• 1 brown t-shirt
• 1 piece of felt in various colors (shown here: orange, crimson, red, and yellow)
• 1 piece of cardboard to create stencils
• needle and threat (or sewing machine)

How to: 

I started with the back design (flared feathers to look like the turkey tail).  Draw a feather like image onto your cardboard.  Cut it out and retrace desired number of feathers onto your felt. 

Cut out all of your traced feathers.  Arrange your design so you know how the pieces will line up. 

Stitch the design onto the back of your shirt.  

Here is what the back of my shirt looks like on:

Next I wanted to create a bib of feathers around the front collar.  I traced circles onto the remaining felt (but forgot to take pictures of this part).  Then I stitched them onto the front.  

Now that my shirt is complete, I tried on the full outfit.  It's hard to take pictures of yourself and I promise it is much cuter in person, but I love it!