Project 6: Put me in the zoo

I decided to participate sewing along with Project Run & Play.

The first Challenge is "Put me in the Zoo"

And I choosed  chose an animal that I always loved and you can find them in some Zoo.
A turtle. A sea turtle to be specific.

In Chile you find them in a different section called "Terrarium" with spider, snakes and other little creatures. The weird thing was turtles and sea turtles were always together one next to the other. Why a sea turtle is in a Terrarium? No idea.

I had two turtles when I lived in Chile with my parents. Their names were "Chica"(small) and "Grande"(big), paradoxically the big one was "Chica". They were fast. My turtles heard my dad when he came home after work and ran to say Hello to him. He was the one who fed them. Turtles are so pretty and I never think they could act like that.

I made for Little Girl a turtle outfit. This outfit has two garment.

A little jacket or shrug like a shell. Is green and I painted hexagons with fabric pen emulating the figures you can find in their shells. The pattern is Winnie Shrug by Wee Muses.

The dress is like the belly of the turtles. Turtle's belly has sections and a pale yellow color. I tried to do something similar and I divided the body in sections and added a line of green. 

My fabric store only have this yellow and didn't look so bright in the shelf. I mixed two patterns to make the dress, Hanami and Geranium.

The body is Hanami and the sleeves are cap sleeves from Geranium dress. The back is Geranium too and I choosed kam snaps instead buttons.

The skirt is pleated with three different colours, yellow, light green and dark green.

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Turtle
Pattern: Hanami top and dress by Straight grain
         Geranium dress by Made by Rae
         Winnie Shrug by Wee Muses