28 Mar Old Glory Bottle Cap Flag Art in Progress: March 22-28

The four main panels are finally finished! I’ll add a few fill caps to the seams once it is installed at the festival, but for now, it’s ready to travel. Now onward to make the bottom two stripes.

To minimize the seams, the bottom stripes are made of two long panels rather than four short ones. I used cardboard to make a template of the edges of the four main panels and then cut the bottom sections. There were two tricky aspects to this. One was matching the curves as closely as possible using a hand held jig saw. The other was making the template itself… the flag takes up so much space that there was only about two feet of room to stand in and draw the template!

Mojo Cat inspects the work. The first bottom panel is nearly done.

Filling in the second bottom panel. The edges where these meet each other and the main panels will be finished once it is on the trailer. I need to see how everything meshes together before filling in that last bit.

Follow the creation of Old Glory from start to finish—

• The Making of Old Glory, Part One: February 12-21
• The Making of Old Glory, Part Two: February 22-28
• The Making of Old Glory, Part Three: March 4-8
• The Making of Old Glory, Part Four: March 9-12
• The Making of Old Glory, Part Five: March 18-21
• The Making of Old Glory, Part Six: March 22-28
• The Making of Old Glory, Part Seven: April 4-17
• The Making of Old Glory, Part Eight: Stagecoach Festival Setup
• The Making of Old Glory, Part Nine: Old Glory on View at Stagecoach Festival
• The Making of Old Glory, Part Ten: The Documentary