Sunday, October 7, 2012

Making the peel-based cocoon

As the paper template didn't seem to be working that well, I thought I would try it using a different medium. I traced the lemon peel to make a template and decided to use free motion sewing, on dissolvable fabric.
 It turned out rather small.

I decided to enlarge it, using  the photo I had taken of the peel.  I took out the colour and highlighted the edges in Photoshop.  I used the actual photo so the proportions would stay the same.  I divided the image into four pieces and made them A4 sized.  I printed them out, stuck them together and traced it onto the dissolvable fabric.

You can see the smaller cocoon on the right of the template.

I used some small pieces of fabric to give depth and some stability to the free motion sewing.

Now I have a larger cocoon.  It still doesn't fit together as well as I envisaged but it doesn't matter as I am aiming to produce distressed, abandoned cocoons.


I am not that happy with it as the colours change too markedly for my taste.  However, it is a good sample and I am learning as I go.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Where can I get this template? :)

Mary said...

I just peeled a lemon and used that. You can see that here:http://mary-marymac.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/lemon-peel-template.html
As I said, it didn't lie totally flat so I didn't get a sphere.