I have added bands of cardboard along the sides to give it a stronger look and buttons to look like rivets and currently adding strips of leather to finish the edges.
I got a belt from Savers and dismantled it for the strips of leather look bands.
This is the bow tie for one of the characters in the play.
This is the lid being assembled.
As seen from the inside of the lid.
The lid is on, the newspaper on the chest is going to be covered with brown wrapping paper which will be sprayed gold. This will resemble gold treasure.
I will then hot glue real treasure on top and it will not be heavy.
Skull and Crossbones are going to be appliqued onto T.Shirts Felt is being used. 7 Tea shirts in total.
This is one finished. All the T.Shirts are different. but they have the same applique on them and follow a colour theme.
50 corns all finished. Now i will be appliqueing some skull and crossbones to T.Shirts. and making a bow tie.
This is what i was working on last night. The Woodland Fairy Tiara.
The beads are from my stash, and the purls and jewels are from the necklaces i bought for the pirate treasure. The copper wire is stripped electrical wire.
50 cobs are now sewn, Today i will be cutting the dowels to size and covering them to the handle part with the green fabric sewn into tubes. I then will be sewing the ends of the cobs onto the fabric handles. The dowels will go right to the top of the cobs.
Tilli is fascinated by all the toy corns being made. I think i will have to make her her own soft toy.
