#unfortunately I disarticulated one of his knees by accident along the way and so full-length photos weren't really an option

[chiropteracupola]

after a few days’ work, my tiny version of the Werthers Waistcoat is complete!

it was very fun trying to imitate @vincentbriggs‘s original (which can be seen here and here) and despite the difference in scale, I tried to do my best to match the construction methods as best as I could throughout. 

the major differences are all owing to the scale difference - I haven’t yet figured out how to do functioning and nice-looking buttons and buttonholes at this size, and the gold was really starting to flake by the time I got to that point, so those are rather hasty embroidery and pins instead, and I’ve skipped the pockets and pocket flaps entirely.

I was considering cutting the wrappers down to match the original stripes better, but it was tricky enough to hold the larger chunks of plastic in place while sewing as it was, so I left them whole instead.  overall, I expected most of the components to be a lot more stiff and bulky than they actually ended up being, and aside from having to remake the back several times, everything went surprisingly smoothly, and I’m quite pleased with the results!

#em makes stuff #unfortunately I disarticulated one of his knees by accident along the way and so full-length photos weren't really an option #I'd have liked to take some directly imitating the ones of the original waistcoat but that'll have to wait #tiny keith here is perfectly nine inches tall and while it makes him pleasant to sew for it also means he fits pretty much no standard #miniature furniture... I may have to set up a really tiny lathe and start woodturning my own I guess! #also amused that I was able to pull this off with only materials that I already had! #the fronts are a rather stiff craft store cotton and the back is a Something that I found under a bookshelf #but they do manage to resemble the original fairly well!