Doppleganger John

I chose to replicate my left hand for this assignment.

Although I was happy to move back to fabric after the large inflatable, I quickly remembered that sewing on a small scale is just as hard.

I was fortunate that, when I cut the tape off my hand, most of the pieces were able to lie flat without help. I did cut some darts in the fingers, but when it came time to sew, I ignored them for the most part as the fabric curved by itself when stuffed. Because of all the small pieces I realized that I would have to figure out the order that I would sew them in first, I decided to use the machine for the less technical parts, i.e. the fingers, and I hand stitched the final steps that connected the back of the hand to the front at the thumb.

When I finished I thought it looked better to not sew the hand closed, as if there was a body that the hand should be sewed on to. Overall, I was really happy with how colorful it turned out. It felt very whimsical and I thought that it would be fun to make an arm for it. I hand sewed the arm to the hand very randomly, and played with the stuffing to make it look like the hand was close to falling off.

If I was going to redo this assignment, I would use the monochromatic theme we discussed in class and try for a neater, more accurate version of my hand. This assignment was really fun to sew and the patterns make it feel alive to me, but I would be interested in a more serious version of it.