Doll

I finished Grandma on Wednesday, but between bad light and being very busy, I hadn’t had a chance to show her! A close-up of her face at my Flickr gallery.

and this is what I’ve been working on yesterday and today- more sweater babies-

they are made of recycled shrunken sweaters- wool, cashmere, angora or whatever I can find.

and I made some more atc’s-

well, actually, I had to. My doll club has a holiday swap every year and usually we make ornament dolls. This year I suggested we try atc’s. Then I’ve gotten totally absorbed into making these new woolen dolls and the meeting was Thursday and it was Wednesday and I still hadn’t done anything- yikes! So, Wednesday at 3 pm, I cleared a space on my table ( a challenge in itself!) and redirected my efforts. I already knew I wanted to work with the idea of windows.

I made 11 new ones. You can see them all at my Flickr atc set. The new ones are the last 11. If you are interested in trading, let me know.

Geesh, I have been flaked out lately- I am doing a community craft sale next week- all along I’ve been thinking it was Monday night, but today I thought I better check out the particulars and I found out it’s on Wednesday night! Wow! 2 extra days!

I finished up gnome 4 and 5. These guys are bigger then the first three at 19 ” tall and considerably fatter!

There are a few more picture here on Flickr. I am planning to put together a photo gallery of all these dolls to try to sell them. Soon, I hope… The smaller gnomes will be $65 and the larger ones, $80.

I’ve finished 2 more 15 inch gnomes-

I am working on 2 more that are bigger- 19 inches tall.

next-

made from recycled sweater- inside and out. I stuffed the baby with an a wool sweater that wouldn’t felt or full or whatever you want to call it.

hanging out with friends…

big man 2-

and here he is with a gnome- sorry, I just can’t help myself- I love my gnomes…

next- sweater baby in progress, with pattern

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! Happy Birthday B!

I was down in Connecticut again over the weekend. Frosty Sunday morning. I went to the Red Cross’s Antique and Collectibles Show- I try to go every year. Look what I got-

My excuse is that I’ll be able to use it to display my dolls when I go to a show- we’ll see how that works out!

Also- look who has a new website- Susan Fosnot. Check it out!

My paper doll from Ana Ventura arrived from Portugal yesterday- Oh Joy! I love it!

I was thrilled to see that she is one of the images incuded in Ana’s Christmas card set… which I have, of course, ordered also… so I still have goodies to look forward to in the mail.

Here is a better picture (Ana’s own) of this beautiful artwork.

doodle to sketch

to doll

her hair is felted wool roving- blue dreadlocks

and here she is swimming

I found this tea towel when going through the stuff at my parents’ house. I liked it, so put it aside. Later I noticed the signature and looked it up on ebay- sure enough there is a whole lot of Tammis Keefe textiles. I love these!

I love the caligraphic look of this one-

oh no! I’m suppose to be clearing stuff out, not finding new things I want!