{"id":414,"date":"2011-04-24T21:32:39","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T20:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/?p=414"},"modified":"2011-04-24T21:32:39","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T20:32:39","slug":"new-doll-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/?p=414","title":{"rendered":"New doll commission"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in 2005 I made a doll as my entry to the Beadworkers Guild Challenge.\u00a0 The theme that year was ‘In Full Bloom’ so I made a flower fairy, and named her ‘Bloomin’ June’ – and was thrilled when she picked up the prize for ‘Member’s Choice’ that year<\/a>!!!<\/p>\n

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June is busting out all over...http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/wp-admin\/post-new.php<\/p><\/div>\n

June was based on a pattern in Patti Medaris Culea’s book ‘Creative Cloth Doll Making<\/a>‘, but with oodles of beadwork, and was a lot of fun to make. So I was thrilled when a regular visitor to Patchings <\/a>asked if I could make another doll for her, this time around a green\/brown\/cream colour theme.<\/p>\n

It had to wait until I’d finished moving house, but I’ve been working on the doll on and off for the last month. First off I made the torso and head, and stitched on enormous quantities of hair.<\/p>\n

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Start of the new doll<\/p><\/div>\n

Her eyes are glass, hand-painted with a small amount of glitter.<\/p>\n

Once that was done I moved onto the arms and legs, with beaded joints.<\/p>\n

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Enjoying the sunshine<\/p><\/div>\n

I also added a few eyelashes (the individual ones from Boots work a treat).<\/p>\n

In the last couple of days I’ve managed to add a headdress…<\/p>\n

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Stars and flowers and leaves...<\/p><\/div>\n

… and yesterday she got a skirt.<\/p>\n

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Lots of different fabrics went into the skirt...<\/p><\/div>\n

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...together with some machine embroidery.<\/p><\/div>\n

Now I’m frantically couching metallic thread onto her bodice as I’m hoping to finish her soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in 2005 I made a doll as my entry to the Beadworkers Guild Challenge.\u00a0 The theme that year was ‘In Full Bloom’ so I made a flower fairy, and named her ‘Bloomin’ June’ – and was thrilled when she picked up the prize for ‘Member’s Choice’ that year!!! June was based on a pattern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}