Woven Paper Dove Broach

Here is a great little broach that you can make and wear with almost anything. I wear mine with my vintage black dress for a dinner party or a night out on the town with friends. This little dove can be also be used to decorate - gift packages instead of a bow, place one on your fancy hat with a feather, hang with string from the ceiling in front of a window or make a few and add to your favorite house plant.
Also- check out my blog for other great crafts http://tissupapers.blogspot.com/
Thanks and happy instructables

Step 1 Cut 2 stips

Use a white 8.5x11 piece of paper - you can really use just about any paper or color. But for my dove I use white. Cut 2 strips that measure 1.5 x 11

Comments

[chicks_with_sticks]

Make sure you do this step exactly as pictured. My dove ended up with wings going two different directions.

[suziwollman]

I'm so lost! I have strips that are just bent and lying underneath the others, not really woven in. I hope someone sees this and can help me out! I love the way the dove looks, and if I can figure it out, I'd like to decorate my Christmas tree with the doves and the woven paper stars (also an instructable).

[chicks_with_sticks]

PLEASE! Clarify this step. My strips are all twisted.

[GorillazMiko]

Wow!
Looks very complicated, but looks awesome in the end.

Definitely I wish I could do this, probably would mess up though.
But excellently done Instructable, would LOVE to see more.

+1 rating.

[lancmaltby]

Thanks! I promise it is not hard at all to make it - steps 6 & 8 could be a little tricky but I included lots of pictures. Hope you make one!!

[Emmaleigh]

Wow. This is a great Instructable. I made mine in less than 10 minutes and it looks wonderful. There were a couple of points (step 6 & 8) where I wasn't certain what the instructions meant for me to do, but I just continued to turn my bird in my hands until I figured out exactly what you meant. Very neat! Thanks!

[lancmaltby]

Thanks - sorry about step 6 and 8. It was hard to try and write down what to do at those steps! I hoped the pictures would help - I will go back and fix them. Thanks so much!! have fun with your little dove