Sleigh! — Speed Post: 8 of 12

We now have a completed sled/sleigh to transport Tarn on a long journey.

In the night of Halfland, the Crowwoman Tarn arrives at the Goatwoman Rana's cottage. She has been injured and collapsed. A troop of everyone present at the time gathers to escort her for help across the winter snow, into the golden sand of the secret season.
 

A rare flowering of a garden snake plant here had spectacular seed pods on a dry cane after a while. They inspired me to steam the cane over a pot of boiling water until I could coax it into a Halflandian-style sled for Tarn. It worked! So I added shaped lengths of cane I'd bought for something else (isn't that just the way), and attached copper strip rails to them with tiny headpin tops as nails. I had an old elephant bell stand with a strip of hide held taut by some kind of reed, which I used as the hammock for the character to lie on comfortably. I tarnished a scrap of designer, woven raw silk to look more travel-worn to scale, added textured pillows for her head and wintery branches, like hay in a manger. I found little woven ornaments from the husband's fine Australian hat that I added to the handles (click to zoom them above), as if sleigh bells, as they travel through... What? You'll hopefully get to see.