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The Bird's Nest

@drakonialmusings / drakonialmusings.tumblr.com

Nemo's little place to put her everything!

Calling this DONE! Sculpted in @monsterclayusa using some of my favorite detail rakes from @wwwkenstoolscom ! Gotta pour the junk mold, jaw will be hinged. I'm hoping to have a preorder for blanks up by next Friday but might not have a finished example to show for a bit. It's a big bird!

Got a comment asking about the leaf bolero patterns, and I know nothing about pattern grading and have no intention of making patterns to sell, so the best I can do is show them on an inch grid. (I actually made two pieces for the second and third patterns because I wanted the backs to be asymmetrical, but the fronts are the same.)

I still think the best way to do them is the way I did it in the video though - cut down a pattern that already fits your torso, tape the shoulders shut, and draw the serrations on the mockup while you're wearing it. Then draw on the veins, tape the side seam shut, and cut a new side seam along a vein.

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