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Finished orange slice cross stitch. Took about 100 hours to complete and is destined for my kitchen wall.
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Finished off all the machine sewing on the hood; zipper install and edge finish. I am never prepared for how many pins a simple task inevitably needs!
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Trying out insetting patterns and setting claws a different way. I’m also considering re-working this pattern as the thumb position looks a bit strange.
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Only really the rind left now. Looking juicy!
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Stitching up another orange. This is destined for my kitchen and will have a blood orange coloured counterpart eventually too.
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Completed snow leopard tail. This is huge (148cm) featuring a gore cap and weighted tip. Rosettes are all hand sewn and has detail trimming to show these off.
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Whelp, the original gore cap was too large and failed in holding the tails weight up. So I’m redesigning with a single reinforced belt ‘tube’ and I inserted a 3” foam block at the tail base for stability. So far, it looks like it’ll work well.
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Gore end cap for the snow leopard tail. This was my first time doing satin stitch and I’m really pleased at how smooth I got most of it.
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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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Got all the rosettes into the tail and have cut ‘n’ clipped the rosettes for the other tail half. There’s still some smaller solid spots to sew in after the rosettes, and I think I’ll have to do some fur trimming to really highlight the dark outlines. But looking good so far!