Okay, I toyed (pardon the expression) with my latest doll pattern and here are the results.
While sketching new faces with more awake eyes I accidentally made the hair bigger
and I thought that was cool so here is one variation. She is resting on a lovely canvas painted by local artist Brigid McCabe. Gives me some ideas about what the canvas should look like if I ever get around to painting and sewing a doll to a canvas.
and a detail of the embroidery. I wanted her to have big thighs and no arms and be sort of 70’s (as opposed to the 20’s look of the original doll)
I also tried one with longer limbs and high heeled boots. I like the boots and that’s about it.
I have signed up for a booth at the Wellesley Mother’s Forum Holiday Marketplace again this year. It takes place the first week of November, on a Thursday evening. I feel like I can only do one craft fair a year because, as many of you who do these things know, it is a tremendous amount of work to get ready for selling at a fair. Last year I had a good time and sold a good amount despite the fact that I had some serious morning sickness the six weeks prior to the event. This year I am feeling good so I’m starting to prepare early. My shop is now empty as I sort through things. And I made some of the ever popular tissue holders because I think they are so pretty and will sell well.
Okay, we’re off to Puddlestompers Nature Class now, aka TantrumandStomping time.
Love, love that hair and the embroidery and the shoes. Very 70’s. Very groovy.
Oooh, I love the big hair (maybe I just need a little singing birdie nesting in my own big hair…) and the big thighs. So cute!
that doll is outrageously cute!
Very cool baby!
Love the embroidery! (and I want to see the other doll above the knees–those boots are great!)
Love the big hair. The pic of the high heeled boots reminds me of the wicked witch of the west!
way to go!! i love the embroidery on the hair and prairie loves the high heeled boots!
It’s simply wonderful 🙂
Oh my, now thats some hair! I love the lil details of her, very groovy. The boots are so adorable too- but the simpleness of the final one just works so well.
love the thighs, out of interest, what do you charge for a tissue holder? BTW Kleenex in Australia have changed the packaging style so down under we are all having to redo our templates! argggggg
i love the 70s doll – she’s so funky! 🙂
The big hair is simply marvelous! My hair has days like that.
I love it! very groovy baby!
I LOVE the big hair and the added embroidery to the hair on the side, it reminds me of my one grandma who had big hair and a pet bird ever present on her shoulder. :0)
I really like the big hair and the embroidery – the whole design is very hip! Great job!
oooii, I should’ve linked to this entry if I’d seen it earlier. she has a great hair do – tree style. 🙂
I have big hair, no matter what I do to it, so this doll really speaks to me! I love it and the big is such a funny touch!
I love the big hair, birdie, and the boots! Fantastic! Will you be selling them at your shop?
I love these! The shot of the boots reminds me of the scene in the Wizard of Oz where right after the house drops on the Wicked Witch of the East, they show her feet and ruby slippers sticking out from underneath…too funny!