Making feathers

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I haven't been able to find any good information on this topic through Google or the Memories section, so it's time to pick the brains of the fab bunch of Craftgrrls!

I want to start work on a Samhain costume, and part of it is a skirt made out of feathers. But as finding feathers large enough to do the trick, in appropriate colours, would be very tough and possibly expensive, I was thinking about making them out of some sort of fabric.

The trouble is, I don't know how to make convincing looking feathers. Does anyone have any ideas, or better yet a web page with instructions? I'd be ever so grateful.