Some more fantastic fabric! This tail fabric originally had a cream background and I over-dyed it in a bunch of different merman colors. Hopefully you will be seeing some soon!
It also has some metallic print although it is not as obvious as in the other merman.
You can kind of see the metallic here in the dots and the petal shapes.
Here is a close-up of his amazing hair-
He also sold at the show.
I might have fallen in love with this fellow.
I am so excited about my new African wax print fabrics. This one glows with metallic silver which I think looks like seaweed.
His hair looks like horns.
He found a new home at the Paradise Arts Festival but hopefully I will get more made before January.
I love to play with unconventional hair colors with the mermen. After all, who knows what color hair they have?! This fine fellow is dark but will never be able to hide in the depths of the sea because of his colorful tail.
Still with the skeletons. I’m imagining all these skeletons partying at the bottom of the ocean.
His purple fins match his purple hair.
More skeletons and more African Wax fabric. I think this is the first African wax fabric I came into and has inspired the collecting of all the others!
Brown skin and orange hair.
No African Wax fabric on this fellow but he has an awesome batik fabric beard and fins.
His button is like sea glass.
More African wax fabric- it is so inspiring!
Ships and more ships.
I’ve been working on all the different stages of mermen. I have a few sewed up and ready to finish. I will post them as I get them done. I also cut out a whole lot of new mermen bodies (and also some other fellows) and I’m in the middle of dyeing them up. Here is the first merman finished-
I am excited about some new African Wax Print fabrics that I bought recently- I think they will make amazing merman tails.
His blue “skin” is a bit mottled but I decided that was fine for a merman. I just love the fish!
This is the last merman and the last doll of 2021. My etsy shop will be closed for shipped items from 12/21 to 1/1/2022.
This hair fabric has always looked like kelp to me so perfect for a merman’s hair.
He has another one of the bone buttons.
He has big fish on his tail.
I’m trying all kinds of experiments with these long bearded or haired fellows.
He has a large-holed bone button. I have a lot of these- they were commonly used on underwear around 1900.
Skeleton pirate tattoos-
He has a very fancy beard.
You might not see how I got here but I was very inspired by how Bisa Butler uses color.
I found a blue “jewel” button in my vast collection. Perfect!
