Tail Progression

With the main body piece of the tail well on its way to being completed, the tail fin was the next step to figure out. Firstly I cut the basic shape from some pattern paper then transferred this to a stretchy green fabric. By making the tail and body sections both out of a stretchy fabric, there was a better match in fabric textures.
Cutting out the fin shape twice, I then cut the same shapes from a length of wadding. The next step was to line up the wadding shapes with the green, then sew these three pieces together. By layering the wadding on top of the two green pieces I could turn the whole thing inside out and the wadding would be encased inside the two green outer pieces. A little hand stitching was required where the sewing machine didn't pick up the sides properly so the wadding was poking through, but this only took a short while to fix.
Once the basic tail was constructed I decided to take advantage of the wadding within the tail and added in some quilted patterns to create a more realistic, webbed/ boned look.