I think one of the reasons I’m liking Contemporary Boho decor, besides the fact it will fit into almost any style, is the nature aspect of it.

I saw this idea https://pin.it/7nmdV6n for making boho feathers with rafia and starch to make it stiff.

I didn’t have either of those this morning, but I did have a Dollar Tree hula skirt 🙂 and I found a recipe for making my own spray starch. https://www.thespruce.com/spray-starch-recipe-4155709

You can find anything on Google. It worked perfectly.

I cut off strips from the hula skirt. The idea video above explains how to attach the strips.

Once I had enough strips tied on, I put down a sheet of parchment paper, placed my piece on it, sprayed it with my homemade starch, then added another piece of parchment paper, and ironed it dry.

It came out nice and stiff. I was able to peel off the top piece of parchment paper easily. I left the back piece on at that point because I thought it would be easy to cut the shape of the feather with it attached. And it was!

I then used glue. The gluing isn’t shown here but I spread tacky glue on the back across the top and bottom and down the seam to hold all the strips together and so they wouldn’t shift up and down.

One it was cut out, I peeled each piece apart as they were all stuck together from the starch.

I will say this wasn’t a quick project, but it was easy to do. And I made it outside in this beautiful weather we are having!

And that green glass vase! I thrifted it long ago. I never knew how I would use it until now.