Day 167: Another horsey doll

This is a good way of exploring collage and using funky paper together with textiles. I really like making these but should probably expand from making horses and elephants.

Day 163: More horses

So happy with my Winnetou horse I made another one. Brought up in communist country, we never had 'My little pony' so I am making up for it with a collection of my own. Who knew string was so much fun:)

Day 162: A 2D elephant toy

This is my new 2D type of toy made of fabric and paper. Really pleased with it:)

Day 151: Toy Mouse

A 10cm toy mouse climbing the tree. I rarely give sense of scale so I thought this would be a good opportunity to do so:)

Day 150: Rose and Cherry - photo shoot

After all that hassle, I decided that a photo shoot was in order. Really proud over myself, I didn't throw it all in the bin after all...

Day 149: Rose

One day at the time and I finished Rose too. I had to cut a new dress for her since the first one got all ugly from many times turning in and out. I had difficulties attaching limbs but finally managed so it looked neat:)

Day 148: Cherry

Tadaa...legs right way round and all. This is Cherry as she has little cherries attached to her hair.

Day 147: Rose and Cherry - part 2

Got my stuffing and started sewing...The first doll was so badly sewn that I had to take it all apart because I wasn't following the technique correctly. Dress part got so badly abused I cut it all off and left it at one side. So I made a start on the other doll, Cherry, it all went really well and I got all parts together as I should. The trick was to sew on arms and legs,fold them inside the doll and then turn the whole thing right way round. I did...and after all that I managed to sew both legs wrong way rounds..AAAAARGH!!!!! So I threw everything in the box and left.

Day 146: New dollies - Rose and Cherry

I got so fed up with drawing so I decided to get my trusted buddy  - the sewing machine and make something else. This pattern is from magazine Mollie Makes and it seemed simple, so I cut out all parts, made the hair and then run out of stuffing, easy-peasy, I thought, I'll carry on tomorrow. For sure I will finish this tomorrow...

Day 115: Cheeky Chaps

Two cheeky chaps!

Day 111: Sewing and un-sewing

I made a lot of part yesterday and then I made some more and thought I will put this together and the I realised that the head was wrong so there was nothing else to do but undo it...then I got fed up and went to watch telly instead.
And that's sewing in a nutshell. More time is spent un-doing, patching and turning things right way out just to find another hole...then actually sewing. Time consuming and nerve grating but I will have another go tomorrow and hopefully make that head right:)

Day 110: A whole lot of parts

After several hours of sewing, patching, re-sewing and turning, I have a whole lot of little you parts and you will have to come back to see what they will become:)

FINALLY Day 100!!!

After a minor crisis and feeling a sorts of thing I decided to take the AA approach, one day at the time and continue with my blog. My aim is to try and relax with it and put on things I want to do rather then stressing about things I think I should do. So thank you all for kind words and support, it's nice to have friends.

To celebrate I decided to post my Krishna even though he is not finished, he needs some clothes and jewels so I will try and get that done this weekend so you can see him looking all glorious. This is my first male doll I made. I actually had a vague impression of wanting to make a yoga-doll and out came a Krishna. I really like him with his pink feet. My only worry is that blue will fade as I didn't follow the correct procedure of putting it on...

Anyway, happy 100th to me and all those creative souls that have broken that 100 :)

Day 83: A severed head

Yesterday I tried to make a friend to scrappy but then I got migraine that lasted all day and ended up being very unpleasant. I haven't been that sick for years so not a great weekend over here. Hopefully that will be it for few months. So to reflect my migraine; here is a doll with severed head. I made the body and then I made the head (with red hair) that didn't fit the body at all, so I undid that and started another head and then gave up...

Maybe one for monday...

Day 64: A Strand of Emotion - Scrappy

This is Scrappy. She is 6 years old and lives with mum, dad and big brother. Scrappy spends a lot of her time on her own while her parents work and her brother is with his friends. But that is ok as Scrappy learns to amuse her self. She also learns to dress her self, go to school and come home again. She learns that every stranger is a potential friend although you still have to be careful in choosing. If you choose well, your friends might share some cake with you. Scrappy also finds that reading a good book in library kills many hours while waiting for parents as well as opens door to new worlds and even more friends. Sometimes she gets fed up and sad with her parents and silly class mates but life is full of adventure waiting to happen, after all that is how she found  a friend who kept some racoons in his garden. Turns out, they love chocolate...and so does Scrappy.

Scrappy is created as a response to project "A Strand of Emotion", a project done together with other members of Facebook group 365ers - 2012 https://www.facebook.com/groups/292386624157701/
Please check it out to see other great 365 project our members are doing this this year.

Day 53: Skinny-legged Bird

This bird is tiny and supposedly it would take only about an hour so that suited me today as we spent most of the day on the boat....That is before I got it wrong three times and had to rip and sew again. Then i felt like giving up and posting my miserable little fabric patch but then I thought no, i'll patch it up. So I did. It turned out quite funny with it's tall legs and it can sort of stand...I like it. 

If you want to make one of your own, here is how: http://jennysbuttonjar.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/little-birdie-project.pdf

It is a project from Jenny's Button Jar-blog.

More about our boating adventures are available here:

http://littlepearlboat.blogspot.com/

Day 48: Little Bird Keyring

In one of crafting papers I got a little kit to make a keyring babuska but I didn't like their design very much. I have made a babuska earlier that I think is much cuter but anyway, would be a pity to waste the kit. So I made a little bird keyring using materials provided with exeptance of yellow felt dots. Cute.

Here is a babuska I made earlier...

Day 45: Toy Mouse Part 1

3 hours of work equal small stuffed toy mouse....The pattern was new to me and I chose a fabric that was tougher then it's supposed to be so I ended up hand sewing most of it. As I am exhausted now, after full days work as well, I think I will leave mouse clothes for tomorrow...

Day 38: Star-Dog

Star-dog was my project for day 38 but as I didn't save it properly, pictures disappeared and then we had to go away and I couldn't rectify the situation. Now we are back and here he is, all toothy and happy. I had starts on my mind that whole day and it reflected in the work.

Day 37: Cat for the girl

Liked making my art doll that much, I decided to give her a little friend; cat.