Adventures of Doll Kara, Postcards from Baltimore
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Today has been a doll day, finally I am getting into the cut-and-sew ...
Made on Eglantine Avenue in Belfast, from an old purple sweater experiment that I had knitted, some basic felt ...
It is Kara The Doll! In the general image of the great + legendary Kara herself. Blonde, in a violet leotard(?), glasses + green eyes. She was ...
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 ...
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....
One of my first dolls - long legs, a ...
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 ...
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) -- ...
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. [gallery link="file" columns="5" orderby="rand"]
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 ...
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 ...
The Baby has gone Monster! And he's made some female friends, all of whom are dolls, some of whom are dork dolls. Two of them are up for online sale here the other two will be on sale at the Handmade Arcade!...
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