This is my version of Tweedle Dee.

She is a silly little bird.

She is a new pattern by elinor peace bailey.

I think she is the cutest thing!

I had a little trouble following the directions so she didn't go together quite right but I love her anyway! :o) (I am not good at following directions or reading patterns LOL)

The pattern is really fun and goes together really fast.

It comes with a pre-printed face. I choose not to use it and drew the face that came with the pattern.

If you want to see elinor's patterns they are here.

http://shop.epbdolls.net/main.sc

And the pre printed face fabric is here.

http://shop.epbdolls.net/product.sc?categoryId=-1&productId=168

A little fairy and a flower pincushion.

This is my newest pincushion. It is a flower with a little fairy.

The fairy is attached to a hat pin so she is actually removable.

Oh Look I do make dolls :o)

This is a mermaid that I made sometime last year. I think she is the last doll that I completely finished.


I have been dreaming of dolls lately.
I want to make one but not sure what kind.
Do I want to make another mermaid? A fairy? A pretty doll? A primitive doll or A ???????
I just don't know.

Where do you find inspiration?

Sometimes I like to just look through pattern shops
Like http://clothdollpatterns.com/ or http://www.dollmakersjourney.com/
Although I find myself wanting to buy patterns.
I realize that I buy patterns because I want to own the doll on the cover. I rarely ever make the doll.
I also like to look around the cloth doll connection http://www.clothdollconnection.com/
There is always something fun to look at there.
Sometimes I like to blog surf and see what others are doing.
(You can follow one of the rings listed on the left of my blog)
And then there is google.
Aw google - How did we ever get along without it? LOL

I also made a new pincushion.
It is in my etsy shop.
It is a retro rusty mouse and cheese.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=10702479

Anyway off to find some inspiration!

Meet Annie
She is a 10" silly little sock monkey.

Around here the boys are calling her "Bump in the Night"
They think that she looks scary!
Annie isn't scary but she does like to get up during the night and have a little snack. Maybe it is the refrigerator closing that scares them? :o)

Annie wears a little charm around her neck that says "Believe"
She believes that she is beautiful and wants to remind everyone to believe in themselves and in there dreams.

DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE AUTUMN IS????????????????


I love Autumn. It is my favorite season.
Only this year.......
I can't believe that it is mid October and is still 80 degrees!!!!!
It makes is so hard to be creative.


It took me three months to finish little Maggie. She is all dressed up in her pink, black and white knit suit waiting for the leaves to change color and fall gently to the ground. She may look like a girly girl but she loves to jump in the leaf piles :o)

Maggie is a silly sock monkey. She is apx. 10 inches (7 inches sitting), She. wears a beaded black ribbon around her neck, wrists and ankles. She also has pink polish on her fingers and toes.

So I finally finished up a pair of earrings I was working on. I have never made a pair of cloth earrings before so it was challenging to figure out how to attach the ear wires.

These are tiny - like pin dolls. They measure apx. 2.5". There faces are cloth over clay and they are hand beaded.

The picture came out slightly darker than they really are.

I'm Wee Bit.

The doll Yvette made in elinor peace baileys class on Saturday.

Elinor did my face - Isn't it beautiful? She does such wonderful faces.

What an exciting time that was.

She is such an inspiration to all doll makers and to watch her make faces was just wonderful!

I was amazed how she could take her crayons and pens and just color so fast and create a fabulous face.

The most amazing thing was that she purchased a teddy bear and doll pin from me. I couldn't believe it! She also asked me to make her some earrings. WOW she wants some of my art!!

The class was held at a really cool fabric/fibre art store. It is called 145 Art and Design Studio and is located in Culpeper, Virginia. The shop has amazing fabrics and yummy fibres and all kinds of art supplies. Noreen, the owner, is such a sweet person. She really went out of her way to make the class wonderful. She even brought us chocolate during the middle of the class. Can't get any better than that! If you are ever in the area stop by and check out her store. It is like a candy store for fabric lovers.

It was such a wonderful day! I will cherish the memory forever!

Hi - I'm Charlie and we are in the middle of a big decision here.




Yvette is getting ready for a class with elinor peace bailey this weekend.







She is really excited as it will be her first doll class. And she has heard what a fun teacher elinor is!





( I heard somewhere she doesn't capitalize her name? - is that true? )




Anyway we are trying to decide with pattern to make. (I know she should have started it already but .... ????


I don't know why she has waited. Since she waited so long to start this doll we didn't have time to buy a pattern so she is picking one from a magazine.




Here are the two patterns that we are choosing from.



Wee Bit Revisited


which is in The Cloth Doll magazine - Fall 1998.

Here are the fabrics combinations that she has chosen to possible make that one.


Aren't those tassel delightful!!! I love them and the orange is so wild.

OH! There is a glare on the magazine photo. Maybe I should learn to use the camera - instead of just monkeying around with it..tee hee :o)

Or

The Keeper of Memories

which is in Cloth Dolls magazine - This magazine was a special edition magazine publish a while ago. It's an Australian magazine I don't think they made any more. Well at least we didn't find one :o)

Here are the fabric combination for that doll.

They are a little more elegant and they are so silky. The light one with flowers is very glittery!

I wonder which she will choose. I don't see any pink and black or red which are her favorite colors to use. I wish she would hurry up! She promised to finish me sometime in the future. I think I would like a button front shirt collar and a tie. I want to be a well dressed monkey! :o)

Where did May go? It seems to have rushed by. The kids will be out of school in a week!!!!! Now lets get in that studio and start sewing!!!

Bendi mermaid doll and tuffet -







This is my first attempt to alter a bendi doll. I wanted to make a mermaid and try some new (well new for me :o) techniques.

I used tissue paper and paint to give her a textured body.
I also wanted to try to make webbed hands. They came out slightly big but...oh well she also has way to big fins/feet LOL

She has a cloth covered clay face and little tiny sea shells in her hair and on her lace dress.
Her dress was also painted with fabric paint.








The little tuffet is a tuna can (tiny size can) covered in tissue and painted. The top is stretch velvet and it has beaded shell trim attached.





My mermaid didn't come out exactly like I envisioned but she is finished and I can move on to the next project. Yeah!!