G[r]eek Alphabet : W is for Wonder Woman

Some of you may know I've had some concern and care to make sure there is decent female representation on my alphabet, but we're coming to a small concentration now with Wonder Woman followed by, well, you'll see soon enough.

Anyhoo, first realisation was that the basics of the costume have varied a lot and so have the specifics.

Picspam alert!

See? I'm limiting myself a bit these days

Anyhoo, my first indecision was the background colour. Initial plan had been green like F, but I was debating dark navy blue, like the Tardis letter T. But I wasn't sure. I wanted to have a play while at work so I used my PicsArt App to draw onto the photo of the design to test out these options for contrast and design.

Although I like the blue and it would have been more of a piece, I decided that actually green would make the design pop a bit more. I also tried out 2 fabrics of green before sticking with my original choice. For this reason I made most of Wonderwoman as a single separate piece so I could lay her out on the two colours of backgrounds - a bit like with Icarus for the letter I (although that was positioning not about background testing).

As we've mentioned I just went with original green.  From that point it was pretty quick. I sewed down the W through Wonder Woman as part of sewing her in place. The yellow was an obvious choice for the W - to echo the gold on her costume.

Then I finished off the details. Cuff got sewn on, headband got sewn on, Shorts got sewn down, and the decorative embroidery - red star in the headband, gold detailing to corset, stars on the shorts all got added. Late on due to some slight shifting of fabric during sewing I found the neck had got a bit rumpled so I put some stuffing in behind the neck and shoulders  (and face) to disguise it.

Belatedly I realised I'd missed some tiny bits sewing (under her left arm) and not sewn in the magic lasso of truth! Can't leave that out!

I am a huge fan of this character and I love that her origin story (not comic book) but her creator, is about a male feminist's determination to give girls and women a good role model!

In my head as a classicist she gets crossed with Athena who started our alphabet and they have their similarities as Greek women who are wise and warriors.