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Design |
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again |
Burner |
Parachute
finished |
and
laid out |
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new "basket" |
quite cosy |
Starting sewing |
great style |
Burner mount built |
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Rolling out the fabric |
Its a big stretch |
Laying out the paper patterns |
Cutting out 20 panels at a time |
Cheesy Grin |
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Cut panels |
Bundled together |
Sorting into gores |
Starting Panels |
Unpicker at the ready |
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Gores bagged |
Starting joining gores |
In the middle of the gores |
Final Gore Seam |
Tess Helping out |
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All 20 Gores done |
Starting on the horizontal tapes |
Theres a lot of fabric here! |
Difficult not to sew it all together |
Guard Dog (not) |
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Starting on the mouth Tape |
Nice pose |
Still more on the mouth tape |
Sticking down the rego letters |
Sewing them down to make them permanent |
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Now all coloured in |
and finally, attached |
Starting the final Seam |
And getting to the end of it |
a bit closer |
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closer still... |
... woohoo! |
Tess isn't impressed |
My finished Crown ring |
Wheelie bin is also now finished. Good shot of it |
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and of the top cables |
Darren Barnfield of the SAAA doing
my paperwork |
Crimping the flying wires, notice the time |