For my quilting work, I have a projecting camera. It will a picture from as small as a postage stamp size and project it as large as you want it. I wanted a large groundhog target and a raccoon target. I pulled images off of the internet and printed them at the size of the lens plate in the camera, then projected them onto a piece of masonite and traced around them...
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Here is the ground hog image traced |
After tracing onto masonite, I cut out the images with a saber saw.
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Here I am about to spray on the basic ground hog shape. I was working with scraps of burlap on this project, and had already done the raccoon, then stitching his piece to another. As you can see, the steps aren't in exact order here in the pictures.
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The basic ground hog shape has been sprayed. After the basic shape is sprayed, I painted in a tiny amount of detail with a small brush. Here the raccon has been finished and I have just finished spraying the ground hog.
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Here some detail has been added to the ground hog.
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I've backed up a step here... this is where I am adding the already done raccon to another piece of burlap. What happened was that I did the raccoon first. He came out so well I decided on a second animal and making wo sided bags.
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Again.. laying out the raccoon to sew onto the other piece of burlap. I got burlap fabric from Joann's fabrics. It's $4 a yard, but they issue lots of 50% off coupons so I got it for two. It takes about 2 1/2 yards to make a bag target.
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Okay... we're back on track here, the animals have been set up on the larger piece of burlap...
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The painted sides are folded in to stitch side seams. Note the black line... I sewed velcro into to top seam so I could open the bags and add filling. This proved more trouble than it's worth. It's actually simpler to just whip stitch the top shut with cord. |
After the seams are sewn, turn the bag inside out... here's the raccoon side..
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and here's the groundhog side. |
Here's a groundhog that's been in use for over a year...
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Likewise a raccoon...
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