No Joke

My local Parks and Recreation posted an art challenge for the month of April which is open to all art mediums. The first graphic they posted listed today's prompt as "Fairy Tail" which I first thought was a typo and then thought was an April Fool's Day joke. It didn't matter though because my brain was already at work designing a Fairy Tail for me to crochet.

I started with the Little WeeBee Doll pattern from Laura Tegg. I just realized I didn't take a picture with the hat off to show off her little hairdo. The pattern includes a wig cap and then I added braids. The dress is also one of Laura Tegg's patterns specifically for Little WeeBee. I had to modify it to fit around the wings and I think I added an extra row and skipped a step at the end. I never know at what point a pattern becomes my own. The tail is attached to the back of the dress.

I looked at a lot of patterns for wings and my favorite comes from a pattern for Swallow-Tailed Butterflies. I left off some of the features that make it more butterfly-y....like the body and the swallow tail part. The hat is really just a generic hat pattern. Several years ago the cool thing was to make hats with animal features on them, so that's something I don't really need a pattern for anymore.

This might be my favorite of the pictures I took today but my dress got in the way because it was super windy out at the creek. So here's my interpretation of a "Fairy Tail". I should give her a name, but I'm drawing a blank. I don't know if I'll try to do something for every day of this challenge. We'll see.