New doll

Not new, exactly.

Perhaps I ought to say

'finished doll', as I made the doll ages ago,

and never knew what to dress her in.

Then I was given a 

lovely old handmade doily.

It had beautiful frayed lace

scraps of torn petit point work

and little triangles of white embroidery.

Too damaged to use, 

I salvaged what I could and

 it inspired the doll's dress.

So, now she's dressed in

 tea-dyed cotton, with cotton lace.

I'v used more vintage lace

in a dark ecru

and  tea-stained some Venetian lace 

for her overskirt.

Eleanor.

Polymer clay and cloth

About  10" tall.

There's raggy fragments of the lace 

on her long cotton drawers, 

and a nice piece

 draped around her shoulders.

I left the edges raw,

to show the scraps were

authentic and old,

so she has a 

shabby chic look.

She started out like this.

There the head is baked

but not yet sanded,

The arms are ready to bake.

This is her sewn into her cloth body.

It's limp, which allows her to pose 

in a very natural relaxed way.

I hope to find that chair she's sitting in,

as she does rather suit it.

(Forgive the ugly, horrible faux stone wall behind her.

I'm working on it...)

 I'm putting her up on Etsy, for now,
but I do need

to take some better photographs.

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