I’ve been working on a few dolls recently.
The first will be up for sale soon. Her name is Calliope and she’s quite spunky. This is her second set of hair as the first just didn’t look quite right. Now its quite luxurious. Let me say “quite” again. Quite.
Her body/dress is made of Berroco Suede. Her hair is as well, actually. The hair color is “Belle Star” but the dress color seems to have been discontinued which is really too bad. Its a neat variegated colorway that reminds me of the ocean. I like working with Berroco Suede especially for my little friends. It ends up really nice and soft. I usually see it in the clearance bin at Windsor Button and scoop it up.
I came up with a different technique for the doll hair that I’m really liking. I basically make a cap out of the yarn hair, then weave some pieces into that and sew the whole thing onto the head. This makes the hair look more full and so you can’t see the “scalp” underneath.
The second doll I just finished is for a friend’s little sister, who loves to figure skate. My friend sent me pictures of his sister in a recent competition and I tried to duplicate her costume and hair style. Here she is:
If there were a gold medal for cuteness, she would so totally win.
HOW ADORABLE ARE THESE SKATES. I’m just gonna go ahead and pat myself on the back for these. I kept trying to think of the best way to make the actual blade part. Pipe cleaners? Maybe, but I didn’t have any silver/grey ones. Metallic paper? I have that, but how to attach it? Then I remembered the sad, lumpy robot I had knit for my boyfriend and that I still had some silver metallic yarn. Voila!
Since I wanted to make the hair a little more lifelike for this one, I used a sock weight (very thin) yarn and did the same technique as with Calliope (a cap, long pieces woven in, sewn on)
Apparently, this is gonna get my friend a “Best Big Brother” award. Whatever I can do to help, man.
