My latest completed project is a small cloth doll I made for a swap sponsored by the Glitter Town Dollies Yahoo group. We were all to make a doll using the same pattern. The chosen pattern was designed by Natalie Bird and is available here:
http://www.thebirdhouse.com.au/Freebies/freebies.htm
Here's a picture of Natalie's doll:
Cute, isn't she?
I wanted to put my own spin on this design rather that trying to duplicate it, so this is what I came up with
I used the pattern for the basic doll, but I did it with black velvet instead of muslin or calico. I couldn't get around the difficulty of painting such a tiny face and giving it more expression on a black background, so I decided to use my own face and tranfer it to fabric and stitch it on. I redesign the size and shape of the wings, but used the same quilted fabric method as prescribed. I used a couple of different decorative stitches in black and gold to quilt the wings. I really didn't like the idea of a butterfly holding a butterfly net, so I made this a "mama" butterfly holding her pupa instead. The pupa was sculpted in polymer clay and then rolled in felt. She has beads around her face, fun fur yarn hair and bead antenea. I hope my partner will enjoy her.
My partner is Glo von Gesselein and if you hop over to her blog at
http://mrsartdollmaker.blogspot.com/
you can see the beautiful doll she has made for me for this swap.
Posts
