Preparing the materials

Panel background fabric:  Normally white or a white-on-white fabric. I highly recommend that you prewash the 1 ½ yard of background material and then iron it smooth.  Put it aside for now.

As I mentioned earlier, I broke the elephant down into component parts and worked on it one component at a time (trunk, left ear, right ear, head, legs, etc). Cut your stabilizer into several pieces, one for each component. It should cover that component completely.

Fabric for pieces used on elephant:  Take your scraps and material you choose for the elephant and apply the Heat N Bond to the back. Leave the paper backing on.  **If you plan to add a scrappy border like I did, cut some 2 1/2 inch strips off some of our fabric before you apply Head N Bond to use in the border.

You will need to trace a few parts of the elephant onto blank sheets of paper.   Toenails, center circles on knees, center at tip of trunk, eyes, circle on top of head, part 93A on the center of the face and the tusks. In general these parts are fused onto the piece below them, not onto the stabilizer.

Take the first (uncolored) poster and find a place to lay it out.  If desired, secure it with blue painters tape to it won’t slip around. If you don’t have a work space large enough to lay it out with folding, then fold away!

Cut the second poster (colored) into the component parts.  An ear is pictured below.