New Doll

This morning I went back to the posts from 2006 looking for the time when I first started this doll. I don't think I wrote about her back in December 2006 when I started working on her. I remember admiring a little doll in pink clothes by my good friend at the doll club and that started the whole pink colored "saga". Two of the three dolls that I started were pink. The third one was from a blue fabric. All three were Deanna Hogan's Avril pattern. I decided that I could get pretty fast at the dolls if I make them all together. I did not think it would take me so long to finish them. I love that pattern and I did finally learn to make the doll joints like she teaches. I used those joints for the third doll.

Now there is a story behind the face too. I had taken a face sculpting class from Barbara Willis sometime in 2007 and so I decided to try my hand with sculpting the head. This is my sixth head/face and I am getting a little better with them each time.

This doll has an off white skirt. I used some applique flowers and buds, some beading and a whole lot of echo quilting using a pink colored quilting thread. This doll has a paper clay face and some jazzy dark brown yarn for hair. I tried using magenta colored yarn for her hair. That was baaaad! I am working on the second doll and hope to finish her soon. I do not have names yet. Any suggestions?

Any lessons learned? Yes a few: 1. Don't start three dolls all at once. 2. Do not use the same color on both/all three of them. 3. But do make dolls which you like to make, to play with and enjoy. 4. Also do not hurry. I thought about these dolls, talked to them and created them in my head a lot of times these past couple of years. All of those lovely moments I would not have, had I finised them - all together and all at once - in December 2006.