I think I love him!
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dog 6- poodle in pink
I love this black boucle fabric but it is so hard to photograph!
This one has real little buttons sewn onto her sweater, not felt circles. And a cashmere skirt and kerchief.
And she has a short tail. Here is a profile-
She matches the peonies.
dog 5- a beret!
I love this curly fabric (formerly known as natural color boucle sweater). It is so perfectly doggy.
Add to that, my old fair isle sweater that I was very sad to have to relegate to the recycle pile.
And a soft cashmere scarf and beret. This doggie is a winner!
And the garden is pretty amazing these days too!
books and more dogs
Thank you so much to everyone who clicked through the links, way back on this post, and bought books on Amazon. As a result, I had a little pile of Amazon $ and I bought some new craft books to review! Actually, I went to choose some books and the next thing I knew, I had a long list of books- far too many for my budget. Luckily I was able to order some of them up from the library. And then I had an avalanche of books because of course they all come at once! It is a very good problem to have. I will be sharing in the next few weeks because it is really fun!
The first book is Lisa Solomon’s Knot Thread Stitch: Exploring Creativity through Embroidery and Mixed Media
She is going to be one of the teachers at Art Camp so I really wanted to check out her book. I was very interested to see that it was full of unusual embroidery projects- including machine embroidery and printmaking! It is a very interesting combination of solid instructions to learn embroidery techniques with some super cool and unusual projects. I can not wait to meet her in August!
There will be more about the books soon but now, back to the dogs. I made some dogs in January as I was working on patterns and getting ready for my guest artist gig at Gather Here. I never put them in my shop because somehow… well, I just didn’t. So I spent a little more time with them. There is this fellow back in January and now-
with a shirt collar and french knot buttons. It’s not much but he looks finished now.
And this fellow hardly got a mention back in January. I am liking him much better with his cashmere scarf and hat.
Yes, I LOVE the hat!
Okay, that is 6 dogs so far and there are lots more to come!
dog 4- boy in fair isle
dog 2 in plaid
A dapper fellow in plaid and a red bowtie.
I love the size difference of these 2 dogs- same exact pattern, 2 completely different looks, just because of the materials. White dog is made out of knits which often still have stretch even when they’ve been felted. Doggie in plaid is made of wovens and those fabrics have less stretch (usually). Many different looks, all from one simple pattern.
Summer dog 1
Although he is dressed for weather a bit colder!
He has a green wool scarf with a fringe. His tail is short and curly. You can see the texture of the fabric in this close-up. It is a wool blend.
black and white dog
I made this dog to photograph for the pattern. After I made this dog. Unfortunately, this new dog doesn’t show all the details I want to show either so I might be trying one more time.
a few things finished
I’m working on the patterns and I am making slow progress. As I work, dolls get made. Here are the babies, so far. Two Basic babies, a folk art baby and a bird baby-
And a dog. I made this one and did all the photos for the pattern but realized that there wasn’t enough contrast to show the techniques so now I have another on going.
Back to work now!
and one more pug
There is a pipe cleaner in his tail so it will stay curled.
I liked this outdoor photo-
and this one too, so here they both are!
