Doppelganger – Victoria

For the doppelganger project I chose a small hammer and doubled the dimensions for the sewn figure. Since the project had to be sewn, I thought it would be humorous to choose a hard object and make it into something soft. So I chose a hammer and picked the softest fabric available. I picked orange because I wanted the object to be one color and there was more orange fleece than any other color.

I covered the entire hammer in tape and started cutting out pieces. I realized areas that were cylindrical were easier to measure and calculate than tracing tape. Most pieces were calculated and the only sections that were traced were at the top of the hammer

The top of the hammer and handle were machine sewn separately. They were each stuffed then hand stitched together. When this was being passed around class multiple people played with it like a real hammer so the hand stitching got a little loose in this picture.

If I had to do a project like this again I would think about it more before beginning. I spent lots of time taping areas that ended up being calculated so the tape was unnecessary in those areas. If I were to make this hammer again I would make the diameter of the upper handle bigger to reduce flopping when playing with it. Seeing other projects with more colors made me think about using more than one color of fabric in the future. Overall this project was fun and I’m proud of what I made.