This one has been waiting a long time to be made. When I first saw that pink zipper pull… well, it seemed pretty obvious where it needed to go!

Side view-

I quite like how the back looks-

his face-

and the torso.

Here I am holding him so you can get a little scale. He has very long legs and is about 25 inches tall.

I worked and reworked the legs. I am still not 100% satisfied with how they hang. So I might be reworking them again- if I can think of what to do. It is a common problem for me- the doll looks fine/right when it is sitting, but the legs twist into an odd position when they are in a standing position… which they normally wouldn’t be in because they can’t stand on their own. hmm. He is basically the same pattern as Robot #3.

I guess I’m fickle. I think I have a new favorite… not such a bad thing really- what I have just finished is often my favorite. This is Trillium. She is 19 1/2 inches tall. She is made of wool knit with wool flowers and leaves appliqued onto her torso. Her skirt is made of cotton organdy and scrim with some vintage rayon tape for a bow-

I would have finished this doll yesterday morning, but I got sidetracked with the skirt. I wanted a certain texture and color and ended up spending time playing with dyes and paint- fun!

I took various sheer fabrics and any red dye I could find in my stash and experimented. The fabric I ended up used is organdy and started out orange. I over-dyed it with dye labeled scarlet. Then I painted it with washes of acrylic paint. Stripes and dots. The skirt is 3 layers- on top is the painted organdy, then a bronze sort of color scrim and, on the bottom, a dark purple scrim.

This is a view of her back-

and a close-up of her face-

There are 2 more pictures of her here on Flickr.

This is Poppy, my girl #4. She is also 19″ tall. She is wool- her pink body fabric is wool crepe, her flesh tone fabric is cashmere. Her hair is from knit wool sweater.

She is decorated with wool cut-outs.

Here is the back view of her hair-

This was the doll where I figured out the hair. It is a 2 piece pattern with a dart. I am very pleased- it is flexible enough that once I figured it out, I was able to use the same pattern for the rest of the dolls. And have slightly different hair-dos.

I know you aren’t suppose to have favorites amongst your babies but… so far, I’m loving this one! I think it’s her hair. There is always a certain amount of magic in this doll making thing- you can do the same thing on any number of dolls and sometimes it comes out better… well, and of course, sometimes it goes the other way- inexplicably yuck!

She is made of fulled (felted) woven wool. Her tutu is vintage cotton organdy. She is 19″ tall. Her hair is made of wool knit from a thrifted boiled wool vest. I also used it for Kitty 10 and it is almost all gone- too bad because I love the color.

Here is a back view-