Page - 3, really not that naughty

In the UK page 3 typically refers to the fact that the Sun has a topless model on its page 3 of the tabloid. Mine is a lot more decorous, involving a sparrow and a biplane rather than anything else.

As always I was looking at a fun way to reinterpret something pretty basic. Please don't ask how feathers connect to a biplane. It's just the way my mind worked.

The biggest challenge here was the fabrics. The basic background fabric was actually multiple layers of a very transparent cloth, and the plane was made out of some extremely stretchy fabric.

It rapidly drove me a little distracted as you had to hold it in place and there's a limit to the number of pins you can use on something so small, specially as the pins at the edges are just where you want to sew.

I really regretted not putting interfacing onto the plane which would have helped a lot in keeping its shape.

One of the other problems I face is that I don't own infinite colours of thread. When is started sewing down the plane I'd found what I thought was the nearest colour I had. I then found I had something much closer, so I sewed over the top to hide the other colour stitching

I then used a brown to create shadows and details. However, as you can see here the brown X of the wing behind the brown sparrow, even though they are different browns was too indistinct.

So, having used red for the propeller and the cockpit I added a bit of red to the Xs on the wings to make them more of a contrast with the sparrow.

The final problem I had was that the fabric seemed to be fraying at a rate of knots. So to prevent the fabric from disappearing I sewed ribbons over the edges to hem them .

The final page - "Der sperling feine federline" - the sparrow has fine feathers.

For interest I was watching a lot of Jessica Jones while making this page.