Made on Eglantine Avenue in Belfast, from an old purple sweater experiment that I had knitted, some basic felt from Craftworld, and braided embroidery floss, for the top part of her dress.  Nothing about her is symmetrical or clean, but I cannot cut her up like I did some of my other first doll attempts.  I like her off-ness, or as others would say, her handicappidity.

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.

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.

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!

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.

She has a magnet sewn onto her label to hold the pins when they’re not in use.  Next up, Sarah in running shorts!