Wisteria Fox: Day 7

It was painting and applique today. Now all the outer pieces are decorated according to the template I made. Here's what I did.

First, I tried to iron out some of the wrinkles. Due to the nature of the fabric it has to be cool ironed. Which still pretty much did nothing. After a solid effort, I decided to forget about it. So I went to making a template of the flames using old wrapping paper.

Clipped down an old shower curtain.

I applied the template to the sleeve with painter's tape. I used Turquoise Design Masters spray paint. Both sides of the sleeve have flames. The back has smaller flames than the front which is where the fox applique will go.

I worked on the kimono in sections. It's a repeating pattern.

Ugh...so wrinkly still.

The paint dries nearly instantly so I set these things aside and work on the applique. First, I needed to paint the face.

I used an iron-on Ultra bond to stick it to the parts of the fox which consisted of the body, tail and head. Unfortunately...I think I ruined my ironing board as I had already cut out the pieces of fabric and following the instructions for applying to fabric prior to cutting out the shape. Oops. 😅 Now my ironing board has sticky stuff on it.

Despite having sticky ultra-bond on my card table and ironing board, I got the fox applique on the sleeves.

So cute!

The symmetry isn't perfect with the two foxes sadly, but they still look great. Right now, I don't think I want to stitch around the edges, but if things start to fray I may have to.

Everything came together quite nicely I think. There is still plenty to do but here's what I plan on doing next for this project:

Dye the neck band fabric in green. ✅
Sew the Lining for kimono
Complete kimono construction.
Mount Kimono on modified dress form to hand paint the Wisteria flowers.
Cut fabric for the Obi and construct it.
Finish knitting the tail
Paint the mask.
Think of some props. I have some paper lanterns, dowels, and lots of LED lights.
Look into getting some hair chalk for non-permanent highlights.
Fake Nails? Nail Polish

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