Too sweet?

I have been toying with the idea of making dolls for a while, but when it has come to designing the face I have really struggled.

After sewing for sometime I have realised that I have really neglected my drawing skills. The body of the doll seems simple and exciting to me, but the face...?

I have always struggled with faces even when I used to do life drawing. I am so envious of people (husband!) who can do the most beautiful and life like portraits.

So for the dolls face I had the dilemma of sewing or printing?

After realising that sewing a face would be just as bad as my drawing skills I decided to set myself a challenge.

BROWN EYES

I decided to think back to my university days, how did we go through the idea process.....


BLUE EYES

Each step has been enjoyable and I am quite happy with the result.

I will print them on fabric and then sew them on to the doll. With a bit of tweaking and embellishing hopefully they will be ok.

It is supposed to happen in 3's.

They say things happen in 3's, well take a look at our list on the board! Me thinks the grumpy people need the KitKat with the tea!
I can say now that we have heating (just) and we can all safely go top the loo without water pouring through the floorboards! As for everything else.......... lets take a break!

Remember I said I was making something for mothers day gifts, well here are the little sweeties.

I did my first fayre of the year at the weekend and thought something new would be fun. I have a few books on crewel work and thought it was about time that I used their tutorials.

It seems a bit mean to stick pins in them, but so cute with this little play mobile elf!

I decided to make some new notebook covers as I was out of stock from Christmas.

They went down well, little girls adored them.

And as usual I made quite a few of these corsages. I never tire of making them, so many colour options, its endless!

With all this lovely sunny weather , it certainly inspires the imagination.

Enjoy the spring sunshine and have a bunch of daffs from me! x




*Edit

If you want to have a go at making similar toadstools I made mine with a combination of this tutorial and a lot of help from this book!

Have fun.