Evie

My grandma Rajeevi is the inspiration behind my Evie doll. My grandma made lots of grandma's flower garden table cloths all by hand. She crocheted, knitted and sewed a lot. She sewed well into her late 80s.

The idea for making a skirt out of the grandma's flower garden pattern was in my mind for more than a couple of years. Evie's skirt took me about a year(on and off) to finish. The skirt has 360 little 3/8" hexagons and it took more than 10,400 stitches to sew it together. And yes, just like my mamama (grandma), I made it all by hand. The doll pattern is Deanna Hogan's Avril. The mask is mine. This is the third and last one of the "quilt" series of dolls I made with Deanna's pattern.

There is a story behind the embroidery on the neckline of the jumper skirt. My mom sewed me a cozy jacket (on her sewing machine, a hand cranking kind- and I did all the handcranking :-) )with some beautiful light lilac colored flannel when I was 9. And she embroidered some lazy daisies on the bottom of it. The jacked was my favorite and so I used very similar stitches on the doll. My amma (mom) made it prettier with leaves between the flowers and they were of a different color.