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Stuffed Magazine

I found this magazine yesterday at JoAnns, and after paging through it for 15 minutes, decided it was worth the 13 dollars.

After I got in line with it, two other women decided to buy it too.

Full of bizarre, misshapen cuteness (and sometimes threatening too).

You can see some screen shots from the latest issue here at the publishers site. Here are some of my favorites!

The evil-Picasso faces are by Cynthia Patton, I love them:)

And the Pickles — they remind me of my favorite doll growing up, Super Pickle!  He wore Chuck Taylors and had a cape with a big P on the back.

Mikolaj the Doll

I made Mikolaj a doll version of himself this August, delivered successfully in Babimost in the wake of a Polish wedding.  Hopefully it has taken over Poznan by now, and is making its way across Central Europe.  All with a look of discontent?  Or maybe insouciance.

The Jamie Doll

Upon request, a Jamie Doll! Complete with black blazer (removable for extra comfort), charcoal grey Converse All Stars, and Decemberists t-shirt. I need to make more Boy Dolls for 2010, or at least lots more dolls in sneakers. Resolution!

Aron’s Cat-Moose Extravaganza

This comes from Chicago, from the living room of Aron, who has built a few moose with me — and was the recipient of my very first animal doll The Dork Cat, constructed out of a raspberry sweater I knitted in Belfast, appliqued with green eyes in big trapezoid glasses.  Aron + Cowboy the Cat are at the center of it all.

The John Waters Doll

The John Waters Doll was finished on Christmas, he’s finally ready for his close up.  He’s up on Etsy, ready for the world.

The Big Eyes – Green Limbs Monster

The Miss Mullen/Wrestling Mascot Doll

I made her in honor of Junior High teaching legend (and Number One Tom Selleck-Stone Philips fan) Miss Mullen.  But Andy, who bought her last spring in Pittsburgh, decided she was a boy librarian — and the appropriate mascot for his professional wrestling persona — Andy The Librarian.  You decide:

I sewed her several years back, she was one of my first five dolls.  I did her face on the long flight, Pittsburgh-Berkeley, the stewardess found her disturbing.  Ridiculous!  I think she’s got a remarkably pleasant face,  and her roly polyness is very pokable.

Andy had me sew her a red felt book that velcro on and off her hands — more of the librarian! — so she can enforce.

The Art Garfunkel Doll

As requested by Claire, as inspired by the family room shrine recently constructed (with an Art Garfunkel LP cover, votive candles, and some fruits that have since been removed), here it is.  Art Garfunkel The Doll.

I suspect Claire will subject him to voodoo procedures, but I do not endorse those.   He likes to read, I am going to move him from bookshelf to bookshelf and hope that keeps him spry + pleasant

The Big Teeth, Big Heart Monster

He is another reconfigured veteran — one of the first monsters I ever made, given some recent adjustments and surgery  — most importantly a brand new red heart on his purple belly.  He is friends with Harry Potter, he likes his Coonskin cap, and he’s studying Hungarian.