Feather Curling Class

[Sweet Violet]

Hello ladies!! This is a class on how to curl feathers! Ostrich feathers that is. Select your feather and your curling tool. I have a pair of scissors that have a really sharp outer edge and they work best. The feather(s) I have used here are vintage and are 2 sewn together.

[Sweet Violet]

Next, start at the base of the quill and select 4-6 "strings" (I don't know the exact terminology.)

[Sweet Violet]

Now, hold on tight with the hand that doesn't have the scissors and curl the "strings" with the scissors, very much like curling curling ribbon!

[Sweet Violet]

All the way out to the end....

[Sweet Violet]

You will have a cute little mass of curls!!

[Sweet Violet]

That's it! I take some time curling strings that didn't want to curl and then fluffing and arranging them how they look good. If the strings are too long, I just cut them to the length I want. I have used large barrel curling irons to shape the entire feather (so it isn't straight up and down), a ball point pen also works. A very small barrel curling iron also works on the individual strings if you don't want such an over pronounced curl. And I also use hairspray to set the curls (just spritz.....DON'T DRENCH!!). Check for color stay and such on a hidden area before you "glue" the whole feather!!

[Fannie Kikinshoot]

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[Sweet Violet]

It was my pleasure!!!

[Pinto Annie]

Can it really be so easy? Thanks for the tips on "sticking" it all the way you want it once you are finished!

[Greeneyed Gypsy]

huh.... how cool is that! :ty :ty

[Sarah Bernhardt]

Beautiful feathers!!! Thanks for sharing:ty
Sarah

[Nellie Blue]

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That's just too awesome! Where's my feathers!?!

[Madame Olive Yew]

huh.... how cool is that! :ty :ty

WAY TOO STINKIN COOL!!!





Thank you Violet. You ROCK!

[Allie Mo]

Dearest Violet,

:ty so much.

You are a treasure!

Hugs,

allie mo

[Chantilly]

What a beautiful feather! Very cool! Hairspray?!! Thanks for sharing these great ideas!!

[Kitty Phann]

Yeah!!! Thank-you, thank-you for that class! That was way cool!

[Lady LaSalle]

OK!!! That was too neat! :ty :ty :ty :tban :kiss

[Lazy K]

I've curled feathers before but never thought of hairspray to hold it! :ty

[Lady Fleur]

I have a small pin iron to do it too!!

[Cat Cimmaron]

Ihave curled them by hand with the scissors, but have never heard of the hairspray hint or the hint about curling the actual spine of the feather. Thank you so much. :ty

[Sweet Violet]

You all are most welcome!! Just remember to spritz the hairspray or you will get a drenched feather. Not a pretty sight!!:lool Sherry B. gave me the culing iron trick 2 Winter Ranges ago and I thought she was crazy. When she saw my puzzled look she said, "Well it's just like hair!" Totally made sense after that! So I applied that thinking towards the hairspraying the feather! You spray your hair, why not a feather! Now........ you all have to curl some feathers and put them on a hat that you make by using the bonnet making class by Lazy K!!!

[Linn Keller]

I am quite content to leave that feather and beauty stuff to you fine ladies, who are skilled and talented at things like that.
I tend to use a feather as a quill, properly whittled, for writing in calligraphy (my revenge on the doctors of the world: one calendar month I did all my nurse's charting in a calligraphic hand -- I wanted to prove a point -- if I can write the volumes a nurse has to scribe, in that hand, the docs can darn well write so I can read it! Never worked, not even once, but Medical Records thought very highly of me!)
(And I used a steel nib reservoir pen for that, not a dip quill. Kind of awkward, carrying a bottle of ink around in the pocket of my nursing whites...)

[Lizzie Marie]

Linn, I don't think nurses will ever get docs to write so we can read it...at least after awhile you get to know the ones you work with and can decipher rather well.....I love that you did it all in calligraphy :tban :tban

[Allie Mo]

BTT for me (and y'all)!:help

[Allie Mo]

Lesson Learned...there is art to curling feathers, I am a diletante, Sweet Violet is an artist.

However, I am tenacious and have a few more days and feathers to play with.

:ty Sweet Violet for the instructions.

[Sweet Violet]

Oh Allie Mo!!! I can't wait to see the feathers you curled!! I hope to see them at convention? How totally cool!!!!!!!

[Allie Mo]

Sorry SV,

I failed at curling feathers and gave up after Jess said they looked like they'd been trampled in a pen full of Ostriches.

However, I did bend and curl some with the curling iron. They look okay.

See ya soon!

[Bustle Babe]

Miss Allie, here's another trick that I learned and works for me. Just turn a lamp on and let the light bulb heat up. Then grab each end of the feather and run it over the hot bulb until you get it curled the way you want. I haven't tried it for the real tight curl at the end but it works to put enough of a curl and bend in it to go around the brim of a hat.

[Lady LaSalle]

I found the PERFECT way to curl feathers!!!!!














Stick them in a box and mail them to you to do!!!!!!!!!!:rofl:gg:go

[Fannie Kikinshoot]

I found the PERFECT way to curl feathers!!!!!


Stick them in a box and mail them to you to do!!!!!!!!!!:rofl:gg:go

Oh, I like that method better!!!:rofl:rofl:rofl

[Sweet Violet]

Well, you have my address!!!!!