Really I Have Been Hard At Work

My last trade was a Christmas Doll trade. I made three six-inch dolls. An angel, an icicle doll, and a friendship doll. Each one has varying degrees of difficulty yet are fun to make and I had not made them in many years. I had forgot how much fun I had making dolls.

For the icicle doll I used a dark blue tone on tone snow flake material to make the body which is nothing more than a carrot shape. I sewed in funky yard at the top to represent hair as I was making the body. Then I molded a face with a mold a clay and painted it to match the material. I made arms from blue glass beads and one 6mm roundel bead in the center to represent hands. I put beads down the side to make it look like icicles and at the bottom I made tiny icicles.                   
The friendship doll is a Jill Maas pattern. I have always adored her patterns, if you have a chance look them up. The doll is simple to make. I think the hardest part about it this time was the head. I want to make a few more for some friends who went crazy over her. I didn't use velvet I used cotton this time. I used white cord sewn down with gold colored thread around her face. She has a purple heart, beading above her head, cross stitch, gold cord, flower ribbon held down by little beads.I drew her face on also.

Today little new work was done

I got up this morning thinking I was going to finish one cloth doll and get a good start on three more. No such luck, the Memi struck. i had to go out this morning and while I was away the little darling jumped up in the chair, onto the sewing table, and helped herself to coffee and a new toy. Well it was a toy to her, just not to me when I came back and saw her laying on living room floor faceless. So that left me ripping apart a doll that just needed embellishment. Oh well gives me the chance to improve her anyway. I was looking at her and not liking the way she looked. She was missing something or I needed to do something different with her. So all is well that ends well.
I did get three others cut out. And the fabric chosen for another. All of these dolls are relatively easy art dolls. The embellishments are harder to choose than making the doll is. I will spend time this evening working on my dolls and reading blogs. And writing some instructions to a few projects to appear in future blogs. 

I have put a gadget on the side of my blog for ovarian cancer. I know that some people can find all these things annoying. But did you know Ovarian Cancer is one of the most under funded cancers out there. It is also the most deadliest in women today. It strikes young women without warning. Someone special to me has ovarian cancer and I want to do this little thing to help her.