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fairy tale girl

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Her dress makes me think of fairy tales.

Maybe a Spanish or Latin American fairy tale.

Her dress is cashmere from the same sweater as the Autumn girl.

A bit of felt behind the button hole to stabilize it.

a little applique on the hem-

A top view of the felt roses in her hair.

It must be a good thing when I finish a doll and I think- How can I bear to part with it? That means I am truly happy with how it came out!

Let me know if you have any problems with the blog- we have moved to a different server and various little tweaks are happening. Sometimes that can cause “issues”. And huge aggrevation for me until I figure out all the very annoying new features. Arg!

autumn girl

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My political word- just once every four years. I am Very, Very Happy today!

Finally- I finished a doll to post!

People ask me how much I plan out my projects beforehand. The answer is not much. Here is a classic scenario. My original idea was to make a group of autumn-color forest-impish girl dolls. The first one to take her own road was the flower girl. I made another girl with dreadlocks and made this dress for her. It looked completely wrong. So, I decided to finish up a few more girls and then I’d figure out if the dress would look better on someone else. So now, instead of a forest imp, I’ve got what looks to me like a little Irish girl who would love to be trying out some step dancing.

this photo is a little light but shows the details well.

top view-

and a back view-

cashmere hair-

flower child

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this doll was very hard to photograph- so much dark.

This back view photograph is my favorite- the colors look right to me-

And I liked this top view and how she looked with her skirt all spread out.

Her body is made out of a beautiful woven wool fabric from a thrifted mans’ shirt. And flowers and more flowers!

Her dreadlocks are made by running ropes of wool roving through the washing machine.

girl with skinned knees

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So I was listening to Wait, Wait Don’t Tell Me a while back and it came up that designer band-aids are the next big fashion accessory. It’s been percolating for a while…

I love the socks.

I think this is how she got her skinned knees- she looks like she is doing a flying leap off of something. Whee!

She has a cashmere twirly skirt. And her hair is made from the ribbed turtleneck from an angora blend sweater. Ribbing makes great hair. I saw it once on an antique cloth doll.

A profile-

little witch #2

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I hope you aren’t getting tired of these little girls because I am still having fun with them. Here is another little witch… or maybe a Jane Eyre sort of girl.

She has a black undersuit, so her arms are black. Her dress is purple cashmere with a silk ribbon closure. It is hard to get the photos right when the colors are so dark.

I am excited about her hair-

I used the felt beads (I dyed them all black) again. 5 small ones for bangs, 5 big ones in the back.

Here is her scarf, off. I was very nervous about doing the hand-stitched button holes when I was dressing Marigold. I seem to have gotten over it and am having fun with them now!

The dress is made from the arms of a cashmere sweater, cut at about elbow length- 2 arms, cut open, pinned together, sewed up the sides to where the cuff starts.  Then sewing in at the top of the cuffs, about 1 inch on each side for shoulder seams. The cuffs are the bodice. Close zigzag at bottom edge for the ruffle. Add ribbon to gather.