Over the course of last week, I created the following stuffed pieces. These are all just trials for a final sculpture. They are posted chronologically, and the cave-like design is the one that I found interesting enough to pursue as a finished product. 

This is the first thing I ever managed to sew. Just two simple, flat pieces of felt stitched together.

My second attempt was more complicated but not too crazy. This is a pillow roughly four inches wide. 

My third piece was a chocolate frosted donut. This is not related to my onion structure, but it did help me learn a lot about the stitching process and about more complex forms made from fabric (i.e. negative space within a solid form).

My favorite piece experimented more with the attachment of flat shapes onto a three-dimensional form.

This design is the one that I felt had enough merit to be enlarged and made more complex. It is a structure made up of half-circles rotated around a common axis and wrapped in strips of felt. The half-circles are made of wire, and string is wound between the supports. Lastly, a piece of felt with a tear drop design was place inside this structure in order to invite the viewer to look deeper into the sculpture.