Assignment 3 – Rachel and John

Because John and I chose to come up with our own patterns inspired by the book, we did not have to enlarge the patterns. Instead, we did draw our patterns on ripstop nylon directly. It was much easier and quicker to start cutting out patterns without the enlarging process. However, soon, It was really hard to guess the size of each part. Therefore, after each cut, we compare them together and cut some if they don’t belong together. For this hybrid assignment, we focused a lot more on the bunny form and included features of the ram in smaller ways. Because we were creating a large hybrid of an animal, we thought it is important to simplify some parts. Therefore, we only included horns and darker legs for illustrating as a ram.

Since this was our first time sewing something this big, both John and I could develop our sewing skills more and learned a lot from this project. We felt that it is actually harder for sewing larger pieces together than smaller pieces. By the end of the project, both of us became much familiar with the sewing machine, especially connecting two parts together. For horns, however, sewing lines on the nylon before putting them together did not work since the horns are too big compared to the thin lines.

If we had more time, we would have added more details to the body. Especially, we would have put more sewing lines to create subtle indents similar to the actual horns. The final result was great but there are some body parts that we need to work more on.

What we might have done differently is make the patterns of the main body smaller and narrower, so the result would be more cohesive. We would have to be more careful concerning the measurements of the patterns in order to avoid making them unbalanced. Also, we might put the legs more front, so the hybrid can sit down as we want it to do.