In my head and on the patterns, I’ve  been calling this doll design “round bottom lady” which doesn’t sound quite nice when I post them… so then I have to come up with some other name and it never seems quite right.  Anyway, not important.

Next!  A Nature Guardian angel.  I love these colors-

Some day I will find the photograph of my Mom in the caftan she made out of this crewel fabric- circa 1975.

Printed wool sweater and floral wire wings-

some side views-

and the back-

and here is the original sketch-

I imagine a guardian angel/fairy. The idea grew out of this baby. I guess it is suppose to work the other way around- creativity versus biology.

She has a sort of roaring twenties hat or crown thing going on. I love the felt roses. I will post a little tutorial on them later- lots of fun and very easy.

I made her thinking that she would hang on the wall.

I am having so much fun with the wool I dyed in January. I used some dyed angora sweater for the hair. And here are the wings-

I got a little frustrated with the wings. It took several tries. Some times the hardest thing to do is keep it simple.

I am having another attack of studio reorg. I have some great fabric for more tattooed guys- which ought to be happening soon- but I got it in January, I put it aside for later dyeing and now I can’t find it- ARG! Why does looking for fabric turn into clearing off bookcases and going through old magazines!

People often ask me where I get my ideas.  Here is the story on this one.

I was listening to Wait, Wait… Don’t Tell Me.   One of the questions on the show talked about a study that showed how very popular and charming people aren’t good at close relationships.  Interesting.  Hmmm.   And I thought of a doll description- “Mr. Handsome- Not suitable for long term relationship!”  And here he is.

Another guy in a suit. I’ve been looking at mens’ fashion photos and trying to copy the expression that seems to be on every one of the models’ faces.

2 guys-

Other news-

Thanks so much to Lisa Pijuan-Nomura of Girl Can Create, who interviewed me for her newsletter, The Red Letter.

I am planning to do an Etsy shop update over the week-end. Get the fairy grandmothers and babies listed and hopefully some other things that I’ve had a hard time parting with in the past. I took tons of photos today and hopefully that will get me through the process since it is suppose to rain all weekend… no do-overs.

Pretty much the same pattern as the tattooed guys, but in wool-

He is 23 1/4 inches tall.

It is so hard to get a photo with the colors right.  On my computer, the colors on the one below look right.  The herringbone is black and a grape jelly purple.  The yellow shirt is a warm buttery color.

I have a few more coming and then I’ll tell you where they came from.

the last one for now-

the group-

I couldn’t make up my mind which group photo was better so here are both of them.

I was having some camera aggravation-  batteries not charged when the sun was good.  Then later, very dark.  And it is suppose to be a very stormy weekend and I wanted to get this little one posted today… you know how it is.  So, not perfect photos, but you get the idea.

These babies are 11″ high.