Never say never

I recently took part in a fun group project. Erin Corbett commissioned Anne Field, Maire Lanzafane and I to create a complete Argentine polo set-up for her amazing new polo pony by Melanie Miller.

As you can probably guess, Anne made the doll, Maire made the saddle pad and I made the tack. 

For the most part, the tack was a more detailed version of the prototype I made for Breyer back in 2014,

The most complicated part - by far! - was the overgirth.

Anne sent me a piece of the fabric she used to make the doll's shirt, plus some 3/8" grosgrain ribbon that matched reasonably well. Ideally, I would have used the ribbon for the overgirth, 

Unfortunately, the 3/8" ribbon wasn't actually 3/8". As much as I wanted to make it work, it just didn't look right.

I tried to source narrower ribbon. When that was unsuccessful, I moved on to Plan B. 

Nichelle Jones posted a do-it-yourself bias binding tutorial back in 2018. At the time, I thought I would never use this information... Well, never say never!

It turns out that bias binding is surprisingly easy to make, and even though it barely shows in any of the photos, I'm pleased with that overgirth.

That was a fun project. Thank you, Nichelle, for the behind the scenes assist, and good luck to Erin and her polo pony at BreyerFest!