When we were told about the project, I knew that I really wanted to try to make a sun. I knew that I would just use the baseball sphere pattern since I had made one the week prior and then, just free hand all the different rays. I kept accidentally making the rays too skinny so it was super difficult to reverse or stuff them. Also, at first, I tried to make the two wavy rays in almost a spiral pattern, but trying to reverse it was too difficult, so I decided to scrap that idea. It was really fun experimenting with combining different shapes and thinking through how to assemble/sew the shapes together so that they reversed in the correct manner.
For my second object, I really wanted to make something either with zippers or with some sort of interactive element. I was asking my friends for ideas, and one of them suggested to make a milk jug. I thought that that would work perfectly with having zippers since I could have it so that the jug reveals the milk that is inside. With this design, I approached it with a bit of a more technical approach instead of freestyling it. I measured the circumference of my circle (for the cylinder) and tried to align them with the length of the zippers and the fabric I used to make the half sphere on the top. It did not completely work out because I forgot to account for seam allowance and other factors, so there was some space in the back without a zipper. I was surprised with how much hand sewing went into this design, but it was good practice for trying to create even stitch lines and better lateral stitches.
For this object, I wanted to continue the use of interactive designing, and also, work on some darting/pleating. I saw a lot of red and green fleece along with red scraps of lace in the room, so I thought that that would work perfectly for making a rose. My initial idea was to make a rose bud and then make a lot of pleated strips of red and green with velcro, so that you could pull petals off the rose. It ended up looking a little weird, so I decided to turn all the red pleated strips into individual roses and sew them shut with the red lace fabric. My new idea became that you could pull these roses of the rose bud and when you have the green part flipped to the decorative side, it could be a bouquet, but when it’s flipped to just the green side, it just acts as either a rose bud/roses blooming from the ground.