kitty 8 and 9

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Yikes! The Holly Fair set up is today and I haven’t caught up posting pictures of my new work. Here are 2 more kitties- sweet, gray, kitty 8-

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She is made of a woven wool fabric- maybe from a coat or something. Her skirt is reproduction 30’s (I think) fabric with little bunnies on it. Her sweater is a recycled wool sweater, embroidered with wool. Here is a closer look-

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Kitty 9 is made from a soft woven wool from my Mom’s stuff. I sort of remember that she had made herself a suit from it. It feels really nice and is tightly woven- beautiful to sew.

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His jacket is made from a wool/angora blend sweater- I made one of the sweater babies out of it too. I lined it with a plaid cotton. Wool felt scarf and messenger bag.

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and here is the back side-

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It is probably obvious how different these two cats are- as I said earlier, I’ve been tweaking the pattern.

kitty 7

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Another wool and angora blend kitty. This boy kitty has a lined vest made from one of my favorite old sweaters. That made it really hard to cut into!

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He’s got a knit tie- it’s from a thrifted sweater that didn’t/wouldn’t shrink in the wash… but a great color. Here is a the lining on the vest- a secret surprise.

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Again I used snaps under the buttons.

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and here is his messenger bag

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kitty 6

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I woke up to this the other morning- so pretty although obviously I’ve been too busy to clean up the garden…

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If you look at my Flickr photos you will have seen the kitties I’ve been working on. Here are the first 3-

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this is little kitty girl #6-

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She is approximately 15 inches tall. When I decided to do the kitties, I tweaked the pattern so that they are all slightly different. I was planning to try to make a new and improved pattern, but in the end I thought they were all cute and had their own personality. Her body is made from wool and angora blend sweaters. Her sweater is made from a recycled fulled wool sweater with vintage ribbon (Thanks Pat H.!) and sweet little flower buttons-

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I decided not to do the button holes and sewed on snaps under the buttons instead.

Thanks so much for all the kind words, encouragement and advise about my computer troubles. I’m so sorry about the whining- I was sort of embarrassed by all the nice comments… here I thought I was muttering and griping and complaining to myself in the corner and people were actually listening (reading)- that will teach me! I hope that I am back on track again. Onward!

okay, I think we might be making progress!

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Wow! I got another picture to upload! After I made the swaddled babies and the sweater babies, I had to make this little girl… she was insisting on getting made.
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I consider her a first draft. There are lots of little tweaks that need to be done, but at least I got out the general idea. I made her during Thanksgiving week-end which was not a good time for concentrating on anything. I can go back to work on her after things settle down- after the sales and probably after the holidays. I’m beginning to get a few other ideas to work on when that “when things have settled down” time comes.

limping along

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Caution- whining ahead…  I’ve got a new computer. So why am I miserable? Getting a new computer seems to come with misery- I have it because my old computer failed. I lost tons of stuff. I feel totally inept because I don’t understand how this stuff happens. If I think I understand it, I am usually wrong… proven so because everything gets messed up again. I always lose the stuff I want and end up with all kinds of garbage that I should have thrown away months ago. Right now I am receiving email but can’t send any– (fixed- yeah! still catching up though) just in case you were waiting for a reply on something. New versions of everything are working in my computer so I am confused by everything I open. My blog- how do I upload photos anyway? Try pushing every button. I have gone from feeling totally comfortable with the blog to totally confused. I can’t figure out anything. My blog/news reader- lost all my subscriptions. I wonder how long it will be before I notice some that are missing.   That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Everybody is crabby.  Hope to get back on track soon.  I am posting some photos onto Flickr where my user name is mimik, since the link is gone from here.

men at work…

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so my computer had a major meltdown and it is under the care of the computer doctors… unfortunately the computer doctor has other things to do besides work on my computer.  So, the blog is in flux (that is why my banner has disappeared), no pictures can be uploaded, I have very limited access to my email and I am not getting my fix of computer screen hours.  Oh well, I’m probably supposed to be working on dolls anyhow.  I will have lots of pictures to post when I am finally back online.  But, I am going through withdrawal!!!!

links finally

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I think I need to make a resolution for 2007 to do more linking… well let’s try starting today.

Some sites I’ve been enjoying-

Endicott Redux

Rachael Direnna

I love pincushions and these ones are wonderful. And I’ve got a lot of that ribbing.

That guy in the striped pants? Very inspiring… something will be showing up here soon, sparked by that…

wow! Diddy-Wa-Diddy

I am so happy that Planet Hilda has been posting again- looking at her blog is like a tropical vacation for my eyes! And I see that she has her work at a gallery in New York. That ought to be inspiration for a trip down.

and here are some of my most recent favorites on Flickr. Sorry I can’t get the mosaic to show but at least I have the links…

1. Christmas nears…, 2. *, 3. WIP: NOUVELLE VAGUE HORSES, 4. a box of birds, 5. LOS BURRITOS 1: LUPITA, 6. Untitled, 7. 1st Week In November, 8. indignation, 9. Living my death in eternal rejoicing., 10. back side of thread drawing, 11. priscilla mcgarry, 12. Ruby

Okay, now that’s enough. Let’s not over-do it…