Panto (December 2013). Cutting the scaled up trees out of calico.

After we scaled up the trees onto the paper and cut them out it was now time to cut the paper patterns out of calico.
We laid the calico out on the floor of 'The Street' as it was the only large available space at the time.
We had 2 trees to cut out of the calico and we laid them top to toe to maximise the use of space on the fabric. We also needed to extend the base of the tree trunks as the original plan drawing had not been tall enough. We also needed to add 10cms to the top and bottom to allow for a header tape to be added and the possibility of a hem. The calico was not as wide as the tree tops, so we needed to add an extension to each tree at the sides so we could cut out the whole of the tops. These extensions needed to be machined sewed on afterwards.

We all worked as 2 teams, each team working on 1 tree each.

Lucy sewed the extended tree top of her teams tree onto the main part of their tree and I did the same to our teams tree. We did this using a sewing machine.