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Doll Workshop: Family of 4

admin — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 03:53:44 +0000

Today has been a doll day, finally I am getting into the cut-and-sew groove. I have an assignment of a family of 4, parents and two children, so I’m laboring away. Thank goodness there are beards and eyeglasses involved! They are my new favorite ways to capture the doll personality — though eyebrows and mouth slant are still there in my pocket of tricks. Let’s hope the Doll-Flow continues on into tomorrow! They cannot all join me in California, suitcases have their limits (another fundamental law of the universe, to be added to my growing list).

Aranzi Aronzo Dolls Make Aranzi Aronzo Dolls

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:58:37 +0000

Stuffed Magazine

admin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:09:36 +0000

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.

The Boyfriend Doll

admin — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 21:29:53 +0000

I made him back in Spring on special request for a Pittsburgh woman — a doll Of a Boyfriend, For a Boyfriend.

Mikolaj the Doll

admin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:02:07 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:54:29 +0000

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

admin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:41:05 +0000

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

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:02:53 +0000

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

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:35:47 +0000

The Miss Mullen/Wrestling Mascot Doll

admin — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:06:55 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:21:48 +0000

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

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:25:25 +0000

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.

The Sally Wiggin Doll

admin — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:03:46 +0000

I know it’s probably (definitely) illegal for me to be using the image of Sally Wiggin for purposes of my own, but she is my favorite newscaster in Pittsburgh. And this doll is a cartoon version of her, not an actual Sally Wiggin face, so WTAE, don’t sue me.

My Sally Wiggin doll, she’s a Pittsburgh sports fanatic — friends with all the Bobblehead Pirates of years past, and her favorite is Jack Wilson (pronounced, like the PNC Park announcer, as one word, i.e.,” JacKWILson”). She enjoys the New Yorker, she’s held the Stanley Cup, and she has the nicest legs in the city.

The Masked Avenger Businessman Superhero

admin — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:23:03 +0000

He was made in Belfast, a few years ago, but I’ve kept him around until last month — when I put a Masked Avenger superhero cape on him (red and black). He was snapped up by Carrie at the Union Project sale — goodbye you little Gingham-Collared-Criminal!

Dada Dolls

admin — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:04:34 +0000

Alice sent me a link to this new book, just published, on Recycled Art Dolls. Very disturbing and inventive, dolls made out of books, cans, garbage, a block of wood, the list goes on! Some instructions included, I might have to try to put all kinds of non-fabric materials through my sewing machine. It needs more challenges, I feel like pushing it to its limits anyways.

Burnt Offerings’ photo stream on Flickr shows a bunch of doll and creature experiments. Excellent stuff!

Girl Dolls

admin — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:17:02 +0000

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The Sister Dolls

admin — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:13:23 +0000

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Women in glasses

admin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 09:52:40 +0000

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