Eventually I settled on blue velvet for the wings.
Making the wings stiff enough to hold their
shape was the next challenge. Dense quilt batting, firm
interfacing, and close quilting helped.
The legs of the bird are fake leather, painted
with acrylic.
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By now, I was aware that worrying has a positive
aspect as a method of problem-solving and hatching new ideas. To
symbolize this realization, I decided to sew a fabric nest and appliqué
it between the two birds. But like everything else involved in Worry
Birds, this seemed to be a difficult task.
Taking a break from sewing, I started work on the
copper wire "coat hanger" figure for the cape. My eyes fell
upon an antique basket, and I suddenly realized that the nest of eggs
didn't need to be sewn onto the cape. A nest-like basket full of eggs
could be held by the wire figure.
The blown eggshells came from good strong Gabriola
Island eggs, and they survived three months on exhibit at the McMullen
Gallery.
The inside of the cape is green satin. I quilted very
extensively by machine around all the design elements on the front of
the cape, using a satin stitch and variegated thread. The quilting
design etched the inside of the cape with cryptic patterns.
Inside the bottom hem of the cape, I sewed plastic
tubing with stiff wire slipped inside.
Fastening the cape to the wire figure was
a problem in in itself, requiring hours of trial and error.
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