Fig. 313.—Your Colossus of Rhodes will look like this.
Do not Sew the Lines Straight
where they should curve; remember this and devote the best of your talents to the work.
Leave a half-inch opening at the shoulder of the upraised arm A ([Fig. 311]). Pull off a bit of the soft, raw cotton and force it in at the opening A ([Fig. 311]) between the front and back of the figure. With a smooth, slender, dull-pointed stick push the cotton well up into one of the points surrounding the head, which represent the rays of the sun. When you have the cotton in the tip of the point, pack in another piece and continue to stuff the point with cotton until it is filled out firmly. Stuff all the points and the head in the same way; then fill the opposite shoulder and upper part of the arm which is held down at the side, and next the uplifted hand and arm, and the body.
Fig. 311.—This is the way to build the Colossus.
Begin at the Sole
of the left foot and stuff the lower half of the partially filled hanging arm, then the lower part of the body and the entire length of the leg, and fill in the other leg. Before stuffing the feet take two strong, stiff hat-pins and break off the heads. If you bend the ends in removing the heads, hammer them out straight again; the pins must be perfectly straight. Very carefully work a pin, broken end first, up each leg well into the body. The dotted lines along the legs in [Fig. 311] represent the pins placed inside; the points of the pins extend not less than an inch and a half below the feet B, B ([Fig. 311]). C, C ([Fig. 311]) shows the raw cotton, which has not yet been packed into the feet. Lift the figure by the two pin points, and if it is firm and stiff finish stuffing the feet; if it bends when held by the pin points, carefully twist out the pins and insert them again, adjusting them until they keep the figure stiffly upright when held by the points.
Sew up all the openings and