Dolls

'Bloomin' June' - Having recently bought Patti Medaris Culea's book, Creative Cloth Doll Making, I decided to make a flower fairy for the 2005 BWG challenge.  The doll was handmade on my shiny new sewing machine, with the addition of glass boot-button eyes and a set of eyelashes.  Her hair is mohair, and the body was dyed with silk paints.  She's then been dressed in a bead embroidered silk corset, laced with beaded ties; a skirt of machine embroidered silk petals with a beaded fringe and fastened with ribbons finished with beaded tassels; a crown of flowers peyote stitched in size 15/0 rocailles attached beaded braid; shoes laced with beaded vines, and a flower on each foot netted with size 20/0 rocailles; a beaded vine for a bracelet on one arm, and an armband square-stitched in size 15/0 rocailles on the other; and her wings are wire with needle lace using irridescent thread and beads.

I enjoyed making the doll for the BWG challenge so much that I took an online class through Cloth Doll Connection with Ute Vasina to make this comical troll.  Her instructions were excellent, and I had a lovely time sculpting the face.

I can't claim credit for Norman as he was made by my talented mother.  She liked Mopsy so much that she made her own before creating Norman from another pattern by Ute Vasina.

The Mopsy pattern has been the inspiration for a range of trolls by Maria.  You can see a selection of them here.