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Finished Object: Rainbow Porg!

Ohh fuck. I keep meaning to blog this and then failing! It's been done since the beginning of May!

Anyway, on with the Porg!




Don't know what a Porg it? It's one of these little darlings, created for the Star Wars franchise as a Disney cash cow and so that they didn't have to chase off or CGI out all the Puffins that nest on Skellig Michael where they filmed the Ahch-To scenes for The Last Jedi (yes, I'm a nerd)
No lie, I adore porgs. I have a cuddly one called Porgifer, and a couple of pins for my bag.
But this wasn't made for me!

As usual I did the Maythe4thMQS over on instagram, and my partner liked porgs and bright colours, and what is brighter than a rainbow?!



I started with the excellent Porg pattern from FandomInStitches, loaded it into Photoshop and shoved a rainbow gradient over it. That gave me areas that I could break up the larger blocks into smaller blocks of colour. I didn't get too detailed, although I did end up with some very small pieces round the head.
I then went through my kona colour card and applied my ideal colours to it! Then I realised I was broke and went stash diving instead.

I sewed this up over several days, because work and laziness and an argument with my sewing machine.
Most of the pastel colours come from a charm pack of the 2018 new colours from kona, while the rest are a mash up of bits and pieces from my stash.
The background fabric is some amazing silver glittery fabric I got in the closing down sale of my favourite quilt shop Threads and Patches *sob* and while it's a pig to iron, it looks so cool!




And then because I am an idiot, and a glutton for punishment, I decided to quilt it with metallic thread. Which I know my machine hates.
This nearly got it thrown out the window a few times! It bunched at the back, it split at inopportune times, I swore at it a lot!
I'm a big fan of basic straight line quilting, especially for busy foundation paper piecing patterns.
But eventually it was done.


I backed it with some The Last Jedi fabric I'd found at Hobbycraft and which I'd been trying to work out what to use it for, and bound it with plain back kona. Gotta keep at least some of it simple!


And so it was done, and with a bunch of extras, went off to it's new home somewhere in the heart of the country!

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