Career/Hobbies Assembly Day 1

Today I was motivated by my son who, unhappy with the cost and fit of a cycling cap, designed and sewed his own cycling cap.  This was out of character for him and quite surprising.  I took advantage of his stationary state at the kitchen table and joined him to begin work on my Career/Hobbies block.  The first thing I did, and I suggest everyone do this, was make several copies of my sketch so I could use the pieces as pattern templates.  I fused Wonder-Under to the back of small rectangles of fabric and then traced the patterns on the back.  IMPORTANT!  YOU NEED TO PUT YOUR PATTERN PIECES RIGHT SIDE DOWN FOR TRACING, OTHERWISE EACH PIECE WILL FACE THE OPPOSITE WAY YOU INTENDED.  The following photos document my progress today.

I started with the body of the airplane.

It felt good to place that first piece on the background square.

This shows how I traced the wings on the paper-backing of the fusible webbing.

The wings with the body on the background square.

The plane is starting to take shape with the addition of the propeller blades.

I added Harriet Quimby’s brown hair, the purple hood from her famous self-designed flying suit, and the goggles I fussy-cut from the bubble fabric I had. I am not happy with the goggles. They make her look like an alien!

I changed the goggles to a dark brown but added circular cutouts from the previous pair of goggles. I decided to make the scarf red. My son suggested a shiny metallic fabric would be better for the knitting needles. I will dig in my stash.

I like the addition of the blue streaky clouds.

This is the gold shiny fabric I am considering using for the knitting needles. I will mull it over.

That is all for now! I look forward to seeing everyone else’s progress on finalizing your sketches.