The bag is done. The sharpie is for scale. I took it out for a test drive today… this will not be an everyday purse for me unless I can get myself a minature sketchbook and smaller size everything else that I seem to be totally dependent on… I’m not good at transitions!
I am amazed every year when this tree blooms. It just seems unbelievable that this tree can survive in Boston!
Beautiful artwork of Mary GrandPre. Link from Loobylu.
If my crochet bag turns out well, I want to try and make one of these. Ben came home yesterday with shopping in very pretty red color plastic bags… he was wondering why I wouldn’t let him throw them away!
I watched “The Thin Man” the other night. If I ever get around to making a boudoir doll, I think I will use Myrna Loy as a model!
Boudoir dolls have interested me for a while so I’ve collected images from ebay here.
Great reference site- http://home.fuse.net/boudoirdoll/
so sad- when I went to my bookmarks to look at some other sites I’d marked a while ago, they are no longer there.
I’ve been sick… no energy to work and since we have no TV, I’ve been spending way too much time on the computer. I’ve been reading all sorts of blogs- clicking through on all those links on everyone elses’ pages. Also, browsing on ebay. Some good stuff-
a great mini-sock pattern– at At My Wit’s End.
Cool books at-Kittys Oriental Craft Shop. I saw this ebay seller’s books before linked from another blog, but stumbled across it again today. Lots of great photos on every listing.
Okay that’s enough for now… hope I’m back to work soon- either that or I need a lot more links…
I am not the kind of person who starts projects one at a time… you know those people- starts a doll and works on that one doll until it is all done? Not me, no definately not. I have too many ideas racing around in my brain ( ADD I think!) and if I don’t let these out, they block all forward motion- That is why right now I am actively working on the dark-haired girl and also these doll pattern revisions. I also have many, many UFO’s (unfinished objects) all waiting patiently for me. Maybe I’ll get to them- deadlines help.
So these are 4 of the 8 bodies I’ve been working on. I am using head and body patterns I developed last year and am considering what it means to attach the head to the body in a different way (seam at the neck). My biggest challenge is to keep track of what I am doing so that I can repeat something when it works. I tend to snip here and there and the next thing I know, I have changed everything- once the doll it stuffed it is very hard to get an accurate paper copy. I always think I will remember what I did- but rarely do.
I had fun with the ears. They are sewn and attached after the doll head and body are stuffed. I goofed on one though- I haven’t been feeling that great- a bad summer cold NO FAIR!- I seem to be able to sew and also to stuff, but my thinking isn’t all clear. I finished stuffing one of the dolls and did the nose and I was so pleased with how it looked that I thought I’d gesso it right up- after I had it all painted I realised I’d forgotten to put on the ears! There is one coat of gesso so far, so I will probably give it a light sanding and the sew through the paint- not impossible.
I am very pleased with the needle-sculpted nose on the second doll on the left. I am trying to do more like it.
I am thinking of these as babies or toddlers- that is the head shape I am working for. Some come a lot closer to my idea then others, but so much can change when they are painted…