Timeliness can be problematic. After Sally Yates eviscerated Ted Cruz and John Cornyn I had a friend pipe up: Hey, you should do a Sally Yates thing!
Which...yeah. I totally should. And fast. Because I doing these current event felt objects means that time is of the essence.
So I designed and made a Sally Yates ornament:
With mistakes.
First off, Sally doesn't really have many pithy (short) quotes to use.
Secondly, it's really hard to accurately capture that head-looking-up regal pose without someone looking just plain crooked. So much of that chin definition in that pose relies on the natural shadows and 3D-ness of the human body. It's very difficult to subtly render anything in felt, and it requires subtlety.
Because of this, the lettering looks crooked. Which bugs me a TON.
I also got the layering on the pink shirt wrong. I guess I haven't done one of these in a while (I've been working on a Firefly Busy Book and some stitching samplers) and I'm out of practice.
Oh well, you can't get them all right the first time. I might still use this example in a pattern, though, because I rarely love making the same thing twice.
