As I said before, I am working through pattern pieces that I dyed several years ago and there are a lot of skeleton tattoos!

I really like how the fan design on the fabric works with this lady’s body.

A close-up of her antique shell button-

And here she is, hanging around with her friend :-)

I’ve had a tough week all around. A very dear friend has passed away and I am having a hard time wrapping my head around it. And, probably related, nothing is working for me in my studio. Sometimes things in the creative process glide along with no bumps. This last week was all bumps. I’m hoping that next week will go better.

She really looks circus to me- it is the striped leggings.

Brown hair with red highlights. And a bow!

And here are 3 together-

She is all soft colors. Her bodysuit is a soft red tone, her boots are grey, her tattoos are brown. I made her be toned down instead of popping.

Another lovely lady!

She has skeleton tattoos also, but these ones are Wild Western ones.

She has a silk ribbon at her waist with a bow in the back.

I am working on more women but not the cozy pillow kind.

When people ask me how long a random piece takes me, I am always flummoxed. So often there are blips along the road to finishing. With the ladies- I sewed up 9 ladies from pieces that I’d cut out and dyed before I left Boston; so more than 3 years ago. I stuffed this first one and … hmm. The head didn’t look right. I went through all the pattern pieces and remembered that I’d redesigned the head shape at some point. I’d traced the new design onto the fabric but years and humidity had disappeared the water-erasable lines. So, un-stuff this lady, retrace her head pattern, retrace on all the other ladies, resew, etc., etc. Onward. It is not a straight road!

Most of the ladies that I have ready to finish have some variation of a skeleton design for tattoos.