Making Progress

The baby dragons are coming along. I last shared about them back in mid February when I'd sculpted all their feet. ​But then I got side-tracked for a month with other projects.

Before moving forward with their legs, they first needed their wings. I wanted them to have a bit of wire supporting them, and didn't want arms and legs getting in the way when I sewed on the wings. So the next step was to design and make the wings.

I wanted the top edge of their wings 'stuffed', but stuffing something so tiny would have been very difficult, so I layered some thin batting along the top edges. Then after stitching, turning, and top-stitching, the wings had a 'stuffed' upper edge...

Then it was time for the arms.  I wanted separate fingers for the hands, but really didn't want to try turning tiny, separate, cloth fingers, so I designed the hands without fingers, and stitched beads where the fingers would be. The beads would serve as anchors for the sculpted fingers.

I was going to use Apoxie to sculpt the fingers since it's very strong, but it's very soft and not the easiest to work with, so I just sculpted the thumbs and middle fingers first, and let those cure.

I had also just finished beading the last baby....

Then my sister offered to help sculpt the bases for the remaining fingers, and after those cured, I finished all the fingers...

I attached everyone's wings, then sewed on their arms and legs with button joints. Then they were ready to have their hands, feet, and wings painted, but I couldn't resist posing them for a photo with their parents first.

The next step is to paint their Apoxie feet and hands to match the colour and patterns of their fabric bodies. But I won't be sharing any more photos of the finished babies, until they actually 'hatch'.