Doll for Aunt Linda

Aunt Brenda and Aunt Linda are twins. so, obviously, I couldn't do a doll for just one and not the other. This is a WIP of a saloon girl, called Sookie. So far all she has is a feather in her hair, so I need to kit her out with a bustier and stockings and a short, frilly bustle skirt.

Miss Polly's Dolly. Warning: Naked Doll

This is the doll before she was dressed.  The arms and legs are joined with dental floss. Why? Because it's surprisingly strong and easy to find, that's why. The idea was to make a doll whose limbs would fall  into natural poses when she was lain down or plonked in a chair. Actually, that's the idea behind a lot of my doll designs. It didn't quite work with this one. The stiffness of the fabric of her clothes and the lightness of the air-dry clay meant she was a little rigid. Ah, well.

That did make her ideal for a doll's doll, however.

Little Peggy and the New Bonnet

Here is the lovely fabric giveaway I received  from The Sewing Dork and on it is  Little Peggy in a new bonnet made from the scrap of unicorn fabric. It went really well with her simple handkerchief dress and was the finishing touch for Peggy before I gave her to a friend of mine. Peggy is holding on tight to Owl, who was an impromptu companion I sewed from the scrap of owl fabric included in the giveaway. So, thank you again to the Sewing Dork and the giveaway! Go over to her blog and see her lovely stuff!

The other blog

Gaslight and Gilt

This is the closest I'll get to a craft blog .  Go see my unfinished Cthulhu tassel.

Miss Polly Won!

Oh! I put Miss Polly (and her dolly) into the County Fair and I won best in show! And yes, I'm thrilled to bits and yes, I'm telling everybody!

Polly at the Fair

 Right now, Polly is at the Fair and the nice lady running the exhibition booth took a photo of Miss Polly for me. She also complained that the doll exhibit had been reduced to a single short shelf. There was just enough room for Polly, her dolly and her chair, because a sweet pouting bunny, a dapper bear and another doll took up the rest of the space. I'm glad I didn't enter 3 dolls.

She does look a little nervous up there.

I didn't get any decent photos of her finished. Here's a fuzzy one. I hope to take more when I get her home again.

And, here's a picture of Polly posing on my worktable, with the unfinished doll I didn't enter. I sewed Polly's lace skirt on back-to-front and fixing that sucked up a lot of time, so the little doll never got any love at all.

I love blogging! (and bloggers!)

Look! Look what I won! This! This is from The Sewing Dork which is a wonderful blog (with a pretty wonderful name) See all that lovely, quirky green fabric?I won it! Look at the unicorns! And the owls! And the curly, frondy stuff! I'm going to have a lot of fun with that. So thank you, thank you to the Sewing Dork and hurrah for giveaways! Hurry on over to her blog and see her stuff. Clever ideas and inspiration for everyone!

Maybe I should do one. When I get to ten followers, maybe?