https://blueherondolls.blogspot.com/2023/04/enigma-yarn-hair.html
Wednesday 17 April 2024
Monday 29 August 2022
Bleeding Heart Zombies.......Free Pattern
New free pattern by Cyndy Sieving...Bleeding Heart Zombies
Image from Dollmakers Journey |
Thursday 14 July 2022
How to Use a Facial Template with a Needle Sculpted Doll Head by Marla L...
Free Needle Sculpting the Nose by Marla L Niederer
Monday 6 December 2021
Wednesday 6 October 2021
Freebie...........
Here is a sweet free pattern from Gingermelon.
http://gingermelondolls.blogspot.ca/.../free-tutorial...
Source: Gingermellon |
Take care :)
Freebie............
Two free patterns from Jill Maas :)
Here's the link......https://dollmakersjourney.com/maas.html#free
This one is very funny and if you gave it a red nose it would look really cute at Christmas. It's called "Fabric Taxidermy".
Source: Dollmaker's Journey |
And, the adorable "Lucky Lucy" :)
Source: Dollmaker's Journey |
Recycling Googly Eyes...........
When my kids were young I used to buy googly eyes for craft projects. Now I know what to do with all the left overs. I'd not be making yellow eyes of course...maybe blue or green.
Historical Fashion..............
If you like to make dolls wearing historical fashion this is an interesting reference. Dolls dressed in fashions from 1715 to 1906.
https://fiveminutehistory.com/french-handmade-dolls/
Antique Lilac Tutorials.........
I was looking for a wig pattern that I had used some years ago and went back to one of my favourite blogs. If you are looking for some fabulous ideas for costuming Antique Lilac is a perfect blog to visit. Martha Boers is an amazing doll artist. She has some free tutorials on her site here........http://www.antiquelilac.com/tutorials.html
Take care :)
Tuesday 5 October 2021
Tilda Doll Patterns....free........
Fluffmonger....free patterns.....
I was looking for ideas for Christmas ornaments and found this page called Fluffmonger. These are such cute stuffed animals and the patterns are free. There are also cute face masks for children or maybe adults with a sense of humour. I personally want one with teeth LOL
http://fluffmonger.net/fluffmonger-free-pattern-library/
Take care and keep safe:)
Saturday 2 October 2021
Dia De Los Muertos Sugar Skull Face........
Free tutorial from Marla Niederer at Orsini's Angels blog showing how she coloured a cloth doll Dia De Los Muertos Sugar Skull face.
Link to her blog to see what she eventually made with it....Orsini's Angels
Friday 7 May 2021
Wednesday 7 April 2021
How to crochet a wig with weft mohair .......
Doesn't look too hard. Even me with my minimal crochet skills could do this I think.
How to crochet a wig with weft mohair
Take care:)
Arley Berryhill ...How to Sculpt the Evil Queen Face
I thought I'd post these links here so that I can find them again or even remember about them.
Take care :)
Tuesday 30 March 2021
Making Dolls Again......
Basically it's a stick figure body made from wire, covered in quilt batting and then covered in knit fabric. Instead of using the head pattern from the book I decided to cheat a bit. Like most doll makers I have a collection of
body parts discarded for various and sundry reasons. I found a finished
head that I didn't like when I originally made it but it was perfect for this project.
After you make up the doll you can embellish it any way you want...fibres, lace, ribbon, beads, embroidery, sequins, paint, glitter...no rules. Total creative freedom.
So here she is. She sort of evolved from what I had in my stash of stuff.
Lots of fun.
Take care and keep safe:)
Sunday 29 September 2019
Making a new doll called "Penny Dreadful".....
This is the same pattern cut exactly the same way. The first head is deer suede and the second Kona cotton. The pattern suggests suede cloth primarily so I used it first and got this very strangely shaped head. A very elongated skull. However just out of curiosity I made the head in cotton and it looks more like a normal shaped doll head.
I decided to experiment and made another head out of deer suede not taking the directions about the stretch of the fabric quite so literally. I cut the back of the head on the straight and not on the stretch and the face front not quite on the direction of the fabric's stretch. Hope that makes sense.
Here is the result.....better I think but ? The face is too far forward and looks more masculine.
After all that I decided to take some of the stuffing out of the first head I made. Then I rolled it around in my hands and squished it to try and get it to look something like the head I made in cloth.
Squishing is a very important technical term :) Here's the result. I think this looks more like it.
The swearing done while I tried to get a decent looking nose. Well!!!
I gave up after three attempts. It is what it is.