Friday, March 7, 2014

Miss Greenjeans

I was completely inspired but the new Stuffed mag this spring and decided to make myself a little up-cycled jean doll. I have a ton of old jeans that were once my husbands and I just can't give them to the second hand until I at least try to renew reuse recycle. This was one of the projects with a pair of his jeans. I drew up the pattern on freezer paper and just went for it. One of the stuffies in the Stuffed magazine was my inspiration. She kinda just morphed as I changed her multiple times in the process. I didn't buy anything but used what I had. I like her. I think she's cute.

 Looks a little tellatubbyish and my memory banks when my son was little makes me shiver just a bit but I like her!

Monday, June 3, 2013

Mermaid

I had participated in a swap on Craftster and my partner had wanted something on the fantasy side of things and mentioned a mermaid. It sounded like a good challenge for me but I wasn't sure how I was going to make the tail but I think it turned out OK. This is the first time I was able to turn fingers and not have my turning tool break through the finger and ruin them. Fray Check is your friend! I like how she turned out. Here she is.
 
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Painted Face Fairy

This is Breeze the Butterfly Keeper. She's my second painted face doll and I was really proud of how she turned out. I sent her to a gal who I met on Craftster as a trade. She was also very hard to send away. The clothes and shoes were my design. The Doll pattern was from this book...Creative Cloth Doll Making by Patti Medaris Culea. It's a very good book.

Poppet Fairy

Here's another Poppet I made for a swap a few weeks ago and was really happy with how she turned out. I added fingers and toes when normally they are three toed little creatures. This was the first time I tried wings and though I broke several needles, I like the way they turned out. I'm not too happy with her ears. Way too big but I still think she's cute.

Poppet Mad Hatter

I wanted to share a doll I made a couple of years ago for a swap. The pattern for the doll body comes from here Good Cookie Creations. I needle sculpted the face a bit. The Mad Hatter...
One of the things I have a hard time with is clothing. If anyone has any tricks? Please share!! He was a lot of fun to make and hard to give away.

Starting up...

I've been wanting to start a new blog for some time now to show others my love of dolls and stuffies. One of my passions is making art dolls but I also enjoy making softies/stuffies. This blog will be for just those things. I'll be trying to focus on using a lot of second love material, meaning thrifted and hand me downs. I'm also hoping that in the future, when my skills have improved, I'll be able to sell some of my work on Etsy! But...one thing at a time.