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This has taken literal days to pattern and patterning isn’t completely finished yet! It’s the most complex thing I’ve made to date.
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Several days work later and I have this absolute unit of a tail. Need to smooth out the sculpt before patterning & sewing each individual segment, before it’s connected into a single unit.
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A good trick to sewing long pieces is to sew one side to the end, then flip and sew the other side to the end. This prevents the warping that can happen when you sew all in one go. Need to get more materials to finish this off with a nice weighted tail tip and…
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Sculpting all the vanes on the tail feathers. This really hurts the fingers!