Doll

Recycled felted wool sweater, recycled wool sweater cuff. Stuffed with wool. Sort of life sized- depending on your definition.

and here is #4 in my series.

and she will twirl for you. Face,

side,

back.

And here she is admiring herself in a gazing globe.

She is wool. Her hair is felted wool. She is available for $100. Enough fairies for now. Onto other things.

Lady in pink and grey (silver too).

She is mostly linen (not her skirt or wings). Here are some detail shots-

face, hair, shoulder,

hair, wings, bow,

ruffles.

She will be flying off to Kansas!

We took a quick trip to the tropics today- Logee’s in Danielson, CT. It was a perfect place to be on a cold, sunny winter day.

I can’t stop thinking about my projects though- when I saw this begonia, I thought the leaves would make excellent fairy wings!

She’s a woodland fairy.

Her hair is crocheted mohair.

her back-

and her skirt-

She is sold.

Lucky me- look what came in the mail today!

clockwise from the upper left-

“My Scrappy Valentine” from Amy Proff Lyons- apl Creations
the very much appreciated organizer of this swap!

“my love of fabric valentine” by Cindy Strine - at Flickr

“My pythagorean valentine” by Cathy Gaubert

“My Baby Love Valentine” by Michelle Freeman- My Busy Hands

“My treasured Valentine” by Caroline- Caroslines

I love them all! I wonder where mine ended up?

Playing with a new toy!

Mermaid in the snow-

don’t worry, she won’t be cold. She is all wool.

a close-up of her flowers-

the hair is inspired by Megan’s amazing pillow!

Hey! It’s my blog birthday! It’s been 2 years and I’m amazed! I went back and looked at what I posted about on the other Feb. 13’s. I am going to do a review of all my unfinished doll projects- turned out that is what I did last year also. And it turns out, it is almost the same set of dolls! I am not good at going back and finishing things once I’ve moved on to something else. I need a show or something big with a deadline to really do that.

I’ll start from right now and go backwards. That way, if you get bored, at least you will have seen what I’m excited about today! Two fairies and a mermaid, in progress-

I love this- when I stuffed the legs, it made the fairy feet cross- looks like they are dancing!

and now for the other stuff…
several sweater babies cut out of polar fleece- yuck, I don’t like working with this stuff after the joy of recycled felted sweaters-

I still consider these next dolls active- am I cursing myself here? I am hoping to get back to work on these soon. These dolls are labor and concentration intensive- I had to stop working on them at the end of last summer when I got so distracted by family stuff.

I think the issue with these next dolls, is that I like these lovely ladies just the way they are!

This little fellow just needs a little work, but will I ever go back and do it? I even know what I want to do- well I’m pretty sure anyway…

hmmm…

and this poor man has been stuck sitting around in his Edwardian underwear since before I even started this blog!

Okay, even I’m bored now. Time to get back to work and into year 3!

It has been an unusually social week for me- house guest, valentine party, lunches with friends, and visiting the School of Fashion Design in Boston on Wednesday. I was invited by a friend who teaches there, to show my dolls to her class. It was great fun! Here are some photos I took while I was there-

On Thursday, I met up with another friend to get some framing done- I am trading her one of my dolls for a print-

All this is an excuse for why I don’t have any dolls to show- I had such big plans a week ago! In reality I haven’t even got things sorted out and back together since last week when I tore everything apart in search of white wool fabric. Ah well, maybe there will be new dolls to show next week!

I read this excellent article about craft blogging and all the comments on Whip up. One of the suggestions was to see how your blog looks on the various news readers. I am not sure exactly how to do this, but there was a link to Bloglines so I went over there. I had checked out Bloglines when I first heard about it, but don’t use it because I have NetNewsWire Lite, which does a similar thing. I noticed that when I go to look at my site, the pictures don’t show up- ahhh! Just exactly what the article warned of… What is the point if you can’t see the pictures! So, what do I do?