Yep, these last days I see dolls everywhere :)
I am not sure exactly how it started but some time ago I grabbed bits of fabrics and started to cut a doll shape and woos! here I am making rag dolls every day!!
So, my dolls are not really the regular neat kinda dolls. They are a bit wonky, some are definitely weird or even almost scary. Well, to sum it up, they have character and that's why they are so precious to my eyes.
I am working on them keeping the primitive dolls characteristics in mind. I voluntarily stain them with a lovely coffee-vanilla-cinnamon decoction and then hop! in the warm oven to dry! It leaves them with some nice colours, a few stains or burns and a delicate coffee smell.
Features are hand stitched and voluntary exaggerated like pinched nose, weird mouth or button eyes. Clothes don't have to be perfect, in fact, I like my dolls to be wearing clothes that have lived, with holes, patches ….
Arms, legs they can have some, or not, no rules.
I think I enjoy every part of making them (except maybe the neck stuffing!!). I don't plan anything ahead and work on each one from the first drawing made directly on the fabric. I love to see them develop slowly in my hands. A body, a face and bit by bit their character is taking shape and their names and stories pop in my head. It is creation and it is magical!
I am not sure exactly how it started but some time ago I grabbed bits of fabrics and started to cut a doll shape and woos! here I am making rag dolls every day!!
So, my dolls are not really the regular neat kinda dolls. They are a bit wonky, some are definitely weird or even almost scary. Well, to sum it up, they have character and that's why they are so precious to my eyes.
I am working on them keeping the primitive dolls characteristics in mind. I voluntarily stain them with a lovely coffee-vanilla-cinnamon decoction and then hop! in the warm oven to dry! It leaves them with some nice colours, a few stains or burns and a delicate coffee smell.
Features are hand stitched and voluntary exaggerated like pinched nose, weird mouth or button eyes. Clothes don't have to be perfect, in fact, I like my dolls to be wearing clothes that have lived, with holes, patches ….
Arms, legs they can have some, or not, no rules.
I think I enjoy every part of making them (except maybe the neck stuffing!!). I don't plan anything ahead and work on each one from the first drawing made directly on the fabric. I love to see them develop slowly in my hands. A body, a face and bit by bit their character is taking shape and their names and stories pop in my head. It is creation and it is magical!
My first doll, I called her Eve - very inspired isn't it? :)
This is Dorothea, a coquettish little lady who has a crush for George Clooney!
Meet Rose, pretty in her white dress :