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<\/a><\/p>\nHe is a patriotic pirate. He has Ben Franklin on his back and George Washington on his arm.<\/p>\n
I used a blue variegated floss for his eyes so they are slightly different colors.<\/p>\n Isn’t this perfect for his hair?<\/p>\n I found this little buckle in my stash. Perfect.<\/p>\n Things don’t always go smoothly when I’m putting the dolls together. I cut this tattooed man out last spring and sewed him up at the end of May. Now I stuffed the body and did the face embroidery. I sewed the fingers and then stuffed the arms. I was about to sew the arms on when I realized they not the same size. At all. I put everything aside and went to Vermont.<\/p>\n Today I unstuffed both arms, back to the hands. Then I carefully retraced the pattern onto the bigger arm. There was a bit of fiddling on both, sewing, taking out, resewing. Fixing mistakes often takes much longer than you’d ever expect. And of course I don’t have enough fabric to just make new ones.<\/p>\n But, he made it through the reconstructive surgery. He did not end up in the pile of not-sure-how-to-fix problem dolls. Phew!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I finished him. It turns out he is a pirate. I think it is the boots. He is a patriotic pirate. He has Ben Franklin on his back and George Washington on his arm. I used a blue variegated floss … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n