I finished this fellow up on Saturday evening, just in time to take him to the Bazaar.
I usually photograph my work before I tag them. You can see the tag on this fellow’s foot. It is shrink plastic with my signature and date. All my dolls have these tags.
His vest, which closes with hook and eyes, is lined with a green cotton with a fern kind of pattern on it.
an idea, a pattern tweak, becomes something new.
I don’t know if you can tell from the above photo, but I tried out several head shapes before getting to the one that worked in my eyes.
Just like the kitty except that I changed the ears, and the tail, and the nose. Oh yes, and the arms.
I sewed up the boy fox first (although I didn’t know it was a boy at that point). He is made of a woven orange wool. He is smaller because the fabric has less stretch then the knit that the girl was cut from.
I found that I imagine foxes as boys more than girls. It was easier to come up with clothing ideas for a boy fox.
And you really need to see the profile to get the full fox look. Photographing him straight on took a lot of the foxiness away.
As always, getting the point across in the simplest way is the challenge.
I got distracted by this pretty shadow when I was out taking photos this morning.
