Doll club was great today. We did a community project- making dolls for kids (mostly babies and tots) at a homeless shelter. I donated the pattern for my sweater baby. It was so much fun to see what everyone came up with!
Also, I sold my Fat Fairy- Thanks Lois!
all the stuff I should have written in the last post, but somehow didn’t think of it.
This is my first fairy ever!
She is 20 inches tall.
She is mostly wool- her “skin” and “leotard” are wool. Her skirt is 2 layers of gold netting and and one layer of green acetate.
She is stuffed with wool.
Her hair is wool boucle. It is crocheted like a hat, stuffed and then sewn onto the head.
The flowers are little papery ones- made in China and bought at my local Arts and Crafts store- 79 cents for about 25 of them. I pull the little bunches apart to use them.
Did I forget anything?
sometimes ideas get stuck in my head, fermenting for a long period of time before something related to said random word or image pops out again. Many, many months ago, I read Jane’s brief mention of fat fairies. This connected in my head with a very funny fairy song that someone sang at a voice recital that my daughter was part of about four years ago.
Anyway, here is what I’ve been working on-
I didn’t like those eyes though so I did them over …
and here she is, all done. I am hoping the weather will be better tomorrow and I can take some better photos.
I made 9. Now I need to choose 5 to send. Here they are on kind of dirty snow…
well, it seems there pretty much hasn’t been any. I feel as energetic as a deflated balloon- I’m not sure what it is. Every fun thing I’d like to be working on requires doing a hard and boring clearing up and organizing job. Groan… so thank goodness I signed up to do the Valentine ATC swap
I had to clear some space around the sewing machines, sort through the stuff on the chair and get out the fabric. I am pushing myself to work on these- it is what will get the creative juices flowing again, I hope.
My very good friend Lyn Lidsky gave me an amazing present last week. Here is the beautiful card-
and when I unwrapped it-
doll fashion! Will it be the next big thing? I know I will proudly wear my doll scarf to proclaim my doll-making self!
More pics-
Can you see the Salley Mavor doll? And there is one of my Christmas 2003 dolls. There is also a little house ornament that I use to make back in my clay days. So much fun! Thanks so much Lyn!
I finished my latest knitting project yesterday. Here it is, washed and blocked, front and back-
and here it is alongside the one I made last year-
I did an extra little border on this one so the edge would sort of match the yarn over increase hole pattern. I don’t know why I am always in a rush to finish up a project like this- I miss having it to work on when it’s done. And I’m not ready to think about knitting something else yet!
Terrific mail today- new atc’s from Claire at Needle Book. These are her first ones- great job!
Terrific mail today- new atc’s from Claire at Needle Book. These are her first ones- great job!
