An edo in the making

Tessa and I will be attending both Portsmouth and Bristol kite festivals, and Tessa didn't think one new kite would be impressive enough. So she set to work, doing a remake of our Tyvek Edo. The paint was blistering off, because the acrylic she used was too expensive (too much pigment vs not enough glue). But this time, instead of using Tyvek and paint, Tessa is using spinaker nylon and applique techniques. Somehow I think that our sewing machine was not designed to do applique on a 1.5 x 2.5 meter surface...

Yes, there's a sewing machine hidden in there somehow.

It's rather impressive to see Tessa forcing the whole 1.5 x 2.5 meter kite under the arm of the machine if she needs to make a round shape. And there are quite a number of round shapes in the design... Oh, and it's not just a single layer of extra thick spinaker nylon either. The technique Tessa is using lets you put all the colors you are going to use in the design over eachother, stitch the outlines and then cut away all but one of the layers.