Kangaroo & Joey Priscilla Queen of the Desert - Amateur theatre production September 2021. Murray Bridge Players and Singers I made these costumes in January 2021 For the final scene an assortment of Australian floral and fauna and icons are featured. I made an adult kangaroo costume and a joey costume for the actors who played Bob and Benji. I used Simplicity 2853 animal onsie for the adult and Simplicity 2855 for the Childs joey. I used the animal costume as it is and added my own drafted tail and thighs. For the tail I drew the shape I wanted onto McCalls trace’n’toile then cut it out, sewed the two pieces together and stuffed it to make a test run for size and bounciness. I made the tail from the poodle fabric as a separate piece. I left two openings for stuffing, one at the wide end of the tail where it would attach to the body and one at the middle so I could stuff the lower part of the tail very firmly then sew this opening closed and continue stuffing from the top. The
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