It's a Boy!

It's been decided (voted upon, actually) that the little giveaway dolly will be a boy! I'm actually really excited to do a boy for a change. Since I began making these dolls not too many months ago I've only had the chance to make a couple of boy dolls. I'll have to do a bit of dreaming, though, before I find out who he'll be. But he's already started picking out hair ahead of me. I really can't blame him; it's cold and dreary out right now!



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Marvelous Monday Giveaway

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That's right, a Marvelous Monday, indeed! Mine's barely begun but I have high hopes. And for the first time in too long, I've got a giveaway for you, from me!

I made the little one below a week or two ago and completely stopped right here. She just isn't exactly right. After the holidays I revamped my 6.5" doll pattern.... made it longer (by about half an inch) and leaner. her legs are longer, feet are bigger. The arms are longer, curved and more flexible. This is the second doll I made from the new pattern (Miss Muffet, above, was the first). I under-stuffed the tops of her arms, making them just a bit more floppy than I'd like them to be and, even though it's the same pattern, the legs came out thicker on this one, and I'm just not happy with that

 

So I've decided to make her as a giveaway doll! Here's how she looks right now, but over the next two weeks I'll work on her a little along and update here with progress pics. I'm not 100% about what I want to do with her yet but I have a few ideas. In two weeks I'll call a winner and she'll get to come and live with one of you. Sound good?

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Winner will be drawn randomly in two Mondays, January 28th, 2013.

Post Holidays

All Christmas decorations have come down and been put to bed again til next year and a few winter things have taken their place (salt dough stars the girls helped me make). This week we've taken up our school work again. I will admit we'd gotten quite behind as I've been struggling to find the place my work will take amidst mothering/homemaking/homeschooling. But that is just something I will have to continue to work on til we find a rhythm that works for all of us. I have been learning that trying to 'do it all' only hurts us and some days certain things just have to take precedence and other things other days. That's a rhythm unto itself and something I am learning not to resist.

I took a brief holiday break and now am back at it....working on coming holiday things. I do love Valentine's Day so much. Working on things for this one really brings me joy.
So, that about sums it up... back to school, back to work, staying cosy, and enjoying the slower pace.

Little Miss Muffet

The very first is a new collection of 7" dolls... Little Miss Muffet.
 
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet
Eating her curds and whey,
 
Along came a spider,
Who sat down beside her



And frightened Miss Muffet away!





She stands 7" tall, her body is sewn with cotton interlock fabric and firmly filled with clean sheep's wool. Her hair is a crocheted cap of mohair boucle and is fully stylable.
She can sit supported and her arms are flexible. She wears underwear, shoes, cotton dress and a handknit pinafore. The pinafore closes at the sides with wooden buttons so she is not suitable for children under the age of 3.

She is in my Etsy shop, awaiting adoption, for those who are interested.
I'm very excited to be working on this collection. I have several more to come from nursery rhymes and will follow them, naturally, with fairy tales.