I am uploading a rose for you today so you don't think I have deserted you. I am working on something really neat and that will be up today maybe...This rose is out of my garden.




On another note: Here is a 1920 antique doll from an old McCall pattern. I had her all sewed up and just laying around for some time. She she is pen and inked and then put together and stuffed. I love her look. She would be a great inspiration for a 3-d doll.

I have been playing around with sculpting faces and they all look like trolls lol. Anyway, I had this doll pattern of a long skinny wall doll. I decided to enlarge her and sculpt a face for her. I didn't like the face or the doll one bit, so I decided to just mess her up good. Here she is.

A sewing lesson: When changing a pattern and enlarging or reducing, some minor hands on alterations must be made to the pattern also. For instance: her hips were way too wide but too late for that now. I took a piece of muslin and bound her hips up, just like they used to do in the olden days when you had a baby lol.

Here is a close up of her face. I am actually proud of this first good sculpt that doesn't look like a troll. Because it's a beginner face and it wasn't perfect, I decided to glitter her up and make her somewhat of an art doll. First I used several colors of Cray-Pas, they are an oil pastel by the Sakura Company, they also make those great Identi Pens and jelly roll pens which are permanent. I just colored all over her face with the Cray-Pas and blended with a rag on my finger. Then I outlined and did the eyes with the Identi- Pen and colored in with the jelly rolls. I then put Sealer (DAC) all over her face and put the the other goodies on.

Here is a side view of the left side. I used Glamour Dust (DecoArt Americana) (DAC) on that side and did the hairline in Craft Twinkles Writer (DAC). Also the the buttons.

Here is the right side. I used Golden Treasure Glitter (DAC), (from the paper perfect line).

I beaded the tops of her ballet shoes with Fashion Beadz (DAC) and painted the bottom a wine color using the fabric paint line. Then I used the Twinkles writer to make the staps and also did the designs on her arm, hands and legs with the gold Twinkles writer.

Her dress and vest are batik and her bloomers and blouse are some expensive fabric I found at the sewing studio lol. I tied ribbons on the arms and legs and cut two crochet dollies open to use for the lace on her bloomers. Her hair is a fake fur I found at JoAnn's.

FYI: I love Identi- pens. They do not dry out as long as you put the cover on when done. they don't bleed and they have two points. One to color large areas and one for finer detail. You can find these pens and the Cray-Pas at an art supply store or go on the web and just type the name in. They also make a neat glue pen. Just make an outline and add your favorite glitter, like an eyeliner etc. For finer detail like pen and ink and color washes, use their Pigma Micron pens which I also find to be much better than most I have used.

If you are afraid to use paint to paint faces. Use the pens. Anyone can paint a face.

Here is Victoria, all dressed except for her shoes. I used a Pasely fine cord and pulled two color from it for her bow and piping.

I am working on a new doll. The name of the pattern is Victoria by G.P. Jones.



It was a dreary raining day today and I didn't even notice it go by as I was happily doing my dolly. Here is Victoria in her underwear.

Victoria is about 12 inches tall. Her hair is done with pen and ink and color washes (DecoAmerican Fabric Paints). Her face is painted with the same fabric paint line. Here she is in her chemise top.

Her chemise is suppose to be two pieces but she insisted that I make it in one piece and so I did. I didn't feel like arguing.

Here is a close - up of her face. I did the outline of the hair and scratched in some hair and while it was curing, I did the face then went back and did the two color washes and shaded with Burn Sienna.



I will try to work on her lovely clothing and bonnet and shoes tomorrow. It will probably take all day.

I thought I'd get a jump on Easter and make my Rabbit doll now. This doll has been in the making for the past 10 years lol. It started with MaryJane asking me to make her the Rabbit doll so I made two but only finished hers. Here she is naked.

Here she is all dress in her crow dress, wool jacket and lace collar and red bow. The tiny bunny in her lap is a Kate Erbach design, he is adorable.

Her name is Blanch and she is 42 inches tall.

This doll is another challenge with my Yahoo Group. The doll is an Antique pattern inspired by a doll call the Presbytarian doll. One of the members made a pattern from her orginal doll and shared it with us. Here she is in her underwear.

I signed the back . Her hair and face are painted with DecoArt fabric paint. This is a very simple rag body. I had to sew a seam accross the neck to take out the crease that it formed. I stuck to the pattern except for adding a butt and changing the hands a bit.

Here she is in her dress. The pattern for the dress came with the doll, real cute old fashioned dress.


Here she is with her bonnet on.


And a close up. I really like this doll.

I will add in the latest of the Hitties. I did the hair in Curley Chenille and painted the shoes in DecoAmericana fabric paint. I might paint some socks later.









To continue with the Hitties. Here they are all dressed. I dressed then in Vintage Aunt Gracie. Now for the hair shoes and hat....

Oh it's been awhile hasn't it? I have been busy buying and researching all kinds of dolls (fabric)...which by the way is my new passion lol.


I just finished two sizes of Hitty dolls. Many of you must remember that cute children's book called, Hitty the next hundred years? It's a story about a wooden doll and all her travels and adventures..

Here they are naked.

I made one in a cotten knit and one in cotten woven. I think the knit one stretched a bit but it's ok. I will stick to just the woven cotten for this particular doll.

Here they are in their undies. Maybe tomorrow I'll get a chance to work on their clothing and then onto shoes and hair. I will keep you posted.

This is the Fairy mother...all cloth with wired ribbon for head wrap and wired ribbon collar.




Close-up of face. I did a crazy patch of the black coordinated fabrics and cut her from that. I never know what face I'm going to get when I paint...I like this one.

More faries..this is the teal fairy.....

Another teal and black fairy....

Here they all are so far with a baby added...she hasn't developed her wings yet lol....

More Faries, I made the forest fairy last night and then went right on into the Christmas fairy and started another one but looked at the clock lol. Here is the Christmas fairy #1. She is 9 inches tall with her toes pointed and 8 inches tall with her feet turned up. Her head is one of my painted wooden beads. She is totally wired to pose. On her head she has a bee-hive out of wool yarn, but that will change lol. I had to cover the wire loop.

Here is the Forest Fairy #1. She is the same dimentions as above. Her head is all cloth, painted with fabric paint. She is a soft wire, so she is limited in the posing department....I like my faries or dolls a bit on the solid side. I do like the skinny ones but I always tend to fatten them up a bit. This pattern is still in the testing stages. I am working on the third test now and will post her tomorrow or tonight.

I also like to put all sorts of fabic to gether to create one of a kind.

Still haven't lost the craze to make dolls. Here is a cute Flower Fairy I made on Thanksgiving day. I always do what I want on holidays, that's why I cook the day before lol.



Here is the back view.

Side view. I made her dress and underwear out of my painted fabric. Then I took a silk rose apart and glued the petals on her dress. I used the bigger leaves for her wings. Then I put glitter on the petals, shoes and wings. The face is painted with acrylic. The arms and legs are wired.

This doll is 33 inches tall and is made out of cotten canvas, she is going to get painted. She is called the Penny doll, a pattern by Claire Pruitt. Body by Fisher lol. I enjoyed making her. I still have to sculpt her face etc. Here she is sitting. Isn't she grand?


Another view of her back side, notice the high heels lol.


Another view of the front, I prefer bigger boobs lol.


Remember this little Pumpking Spirit Doll that I made for a group challenge? Well she won a 25.00 gift certificate which was promptly spent on more doll patterns.


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I am catching up on my posts. Like three days worth lol. Here is another doll challenge from my other doll group. I belong to four. They are great fun and great inspiration. The pattern was given to us and we did whatever we wanted with it. Here is a front view. She is a small doll. I gave her fancy eyelash yarn for hair, purple felt shoes.




Here is a back view.

The craze is still going on hahahahah...here is a cute couple that I made for my group challenge. I make the cat out of muslin and then painted on some hair. I painted two wood beads for her eyes, made her a red heart, jumpsuit and a green collar, tied fancy ribblon around her hands and feet. The face is slightly sculpted.


The mouse is an old McCalls pattern, very articulated. She is made out of mole suede and craft velour and her tail and arms are wired. I didn't want to hide that cute body, so I made her a pinafore. She is whispering a secret to the cat...probably where the cheese is.

I have started on some Christmas stuff and finally finished this tall folk art Santa. I had the coat made years ago, tiny log cabin blocks sewed together for the coat. The Santa is a stump doll

For some reason the flash on the camera made the cheeks blotchy, they are not. Here is my guy in his gown and icelantic wool yarn hair. His face and hands are made out of craft velor and he is 22 ins. tall.

His body is made out of a sample of home decorating fabric which I love to work with. Here is a front view with his coat on.




Here is a back view with his hood on.


I still have to make his crazy quilt toy bag. which will be empty lol.

I have named the doll, "Jubal"(aka NY). The doll is my version of an antique cloth doll, called the New York doll. She is 30 inches tall with a hand painted face and black velvet yarn looped hair (hand sewed). She is dressed in civil war repo fabric. Her shoes are made out of hand painted fabric and her socks are made out of knit. She holds a calico cat. She is sporting hand made jewelry, especially made for her lol. Her clothes are removable.

She is wearing pantaloons and a half slip. Every inch of her is hand made.

The necklace is made out of green glass beads (sand blasted with color) and her ring is a yellow green stone with a copper wire band.

Here is the N Y doll all done and dressed, with her calico cat. This will be a short post. I need to decide if she needs a bonnet. I know she needs a ring on those long fingers.

Another doll on the finish. This is a repo of the New York doll. She is considered an antique, I think. Just google New York doll and you can see what the orginal looks like. I have painted her face instead of embroidery. I kept the shape of the eyes and nose and the mouth to some degree and prettied her up a bit. I did keep her serious expression to some degree also. I also did her hair in velvet yarn loops instead of embroidery.


Here she is with her shoes and socks. I make the shoes out of some of my painted fabric and the socks out of some old T-shirt scraps that I saved from my last t-shirt quilt.

Here is is in her underwear.

And here is what she looked like before she got all rouged up and half dressed lol.




And here is her final stage of underwear. Slip and her cat. Tomorrow, the dress.

Here she is all painted up and wheeeeeeee......oh my, what a lot of work.

A close up of face. No name yet and I need to make some accessories and a stand but not to worry. I will take my time.





I am going to rest now and make a simple doll lol.