Keeping with the “detail oriented” theme, we opted to sew a flamingo for LG’s animal-based outfit for the Animal Kingdom.

We thought it would compliment EA’s zebra attire nicely, and please our “partial to pink” youngest niece.

AKA: the queen of silliness.  Time and time again . . .

To begin, we sewed the Oliver + S, puppet show shorts in a size 5.

Then, we sewed a Children’s Corner, Frannie in a size 5 as well.

We cut 2 3/4″ from the hemline to create a tunic, instead of a dress.

For the flamingo: we traced entire flamingo {template found HERE} on hot pink fabric – and kept the hot pink fabric as a block. We did not cut the flamingo shape from this fabric.

Instead, we placed coral and black accents {for head} on top of the hot pink fabric.

We cut 3 sizes of feathers and added them from the base of the flamingo upward, overlapping as we went.

The feathers were stitched at 1/4″, to give them some “feathery texture”.

After ironing Heat n’ bond {affiliate link} to the back of the hot pink fabric, we cut the shape of the flamingo and positioned it on the main shirt.

*Documenting LG’s first autograph at Disney . . .

Finally, we ironed and stitched it in place.

According to LG? It was a winner!

And our verdict? The tunic could have been slightly shorter – the shorts were lost under it from time to time.

Ultimately though, we prefer to miss it long than short!

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