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.
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago at 11:06 am. Add a comment
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.
Posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago at 9:03 pm. Add a comment
One of my first dolls – long legs, a puff of green hair, and a felted pink-orange wool dress(that was my first knit/felted cap) — sold to Jenna, who works at the Union Project. Here is her picture at the event, there are more photos from the Union Project here!
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago at 10:57 pm. Add a comment
I made her out of salvages from the mysterious surplus-craft-supply secret warehouse in North Belfast. I got snuck in, and rummaged through huge crates of weird remnants of carpet and towel fabrics to find some decent sewable pieces. They all turned out to be fantastically drab colored — my Wonka World fantasies of raspberry and turquoise felts sunk into brown, slate and puke weaves — but still they have some nice sheen to them, and they make a nice background for lapel flowers and mysterious looks.
So here she is, I made her after some French girls I saw in QFT movies. She is tall, almost two feet, and her expression? Well, it’s something.
Posted 3 months ago at 7:56 am. 1 comment
Upon the request of Tony, and for his father’s 81st birthday just around the corner, I started in on a crop of Sarah Palin dolls — this time VooDoo ones. Here is one of them — she is a foot and a half tall (most of that is hair) — and comes with a set of red, white, and blue stick pins which can be employed as necessary. I just put her up for sale on the Etsy site here.
She has a magnet sewn onto her label to hold the pins when they’re not in use. Next up, Sarah in running shorts!
Posted 3 months ago at 2:28 pm. Add a comment
I just posted her on Etsy, I really love the surly expression and the pretzel legs. But my favorite part are her blue and white canvas shoes, salvaged from The Most Hideous Homemade 1970s Striped Trousers.
Posted 3 months ago at 10:51 am. Add a comment
I made Motown dolls a few years ago, she is the only one still around. So I put a cape on her, now she’s superheroic. Number 2 on her cape — she’ll be on sale at the next I Made It! Market this weekend at the Union Project. She is a little surly.
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago at 5:16 pm. Add a comment
Her body is one of my first knitting projects — a hat that I knitted in Belfast and felted there and never wore. I cut off the top of it, put a head on top, sewed a big bunch of greed plaid hair, inserted some limbs, and appliqued a heart and flower onto her too. She can move! I will make more Big Hair-Fat Butt-Pin Head dolls out of hats, if I can find more worthy ones.
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