This is (hopefully) the answer! This tiny experiment seems to be working. I can see my reflection!

My pattern pieces are cut out. I’ve cut strips of fabric from the shirts and started stitching them together to make fabric. I’ll then cut the pattern pieces from the patchwork fabric.

Ready for the next step that is!

Isolation coats are now complete.

The cold autumn weather has been good for painting the isolation coat on ‘Male’.

After several weeks (months) of procrastinating, I have finished painting ‘Male’!

It’s working! My improvised piecing combined with pattern piecing is working really well.

Oh dear! This is my very angry face! Look out gold kangaroo, Lucy has her glaring eyes on!

Self-adhesive foam core board - BOOM! Look how good this looks!

These swirls are making me dizzy!

These stripy men’s shirts will become my recycled fabric diamond. If you’d like to make a recycled fabric diamond with me, I’ll tell you the plan soon.

The background Morse Code is half done!

Today I tried cutting random shapes from the painting rags and stitching them together.

While working on the background for ‘Male’ I’m making a lovely green painting rag to use in my fabric diamond ‘Need’.

I’ve tried a different way of joining the pieces together - I’m not using a backing fabric to stitch them onto.

I’ve been using the same painting rag for a few pattern pieces on each facet. This is how I make the cutting process a little faster.

This is my plan for the background of ‘Male’: green shimmer and chaos!

I’ve added white on the sides of the nose and one more layer of Indian Yellow Hue over the kangaroo to deepen the colour.