clothes

 Her clothes are done. I will be making a bonnet, shawl and a necklace for her soon. But for now she is drying. I will dress her and take her photos.

Her face is paintedI have been working on a doll challenge for weeks.

She got her face today. 
Not my usual type of doll to paint. 
She is all cloth. 
I like a smoother finish but this is a reproduction of an 1800's doll and they did not do smooth.
It has been a challenge but fun.
Her boots still need to be painted.
Her clothes are done.

I am happy ready to move onto the next project A bunny made from plastic/styrofom eggs. 
24 days till the first day of spring.
I need to finish my inside projects to be ready for porch sitting.

 

 I finished another blouse today. Made a pattern. I used kleenex to fit it to the doll. The kleenex works better for me than paper towels. The paper towels are to stiff. Really happy with the drop sleeve.

Clothes done

 Making clothes for Charlotte has been trying. I worked on them for a couple of days. It takes some adjusting when there is no pattern.

I made the under slip to long.I made her under things from child's slip. When going through some things I found 3 pieces of clothing.

The slip was in bad shape to cut the best for the doll. I stitched it in one piece but was to bulky and to long when I got done. I cut the top away from the bottom and just made a camisole and a half slip so it was the right length. There was a lot of lace mending but turned out ok.

I had to adjust the darts in the bodice to make the blouse tighter.

I think I will make another top to go with the stripe skirt.

I will be able to paint the face and boots this coming week.

While waiting

 While waiting for the oil paint on the "walker wanna be" to dry I finished 3 boy dolls.

These barefoot boys have been waiting for years for their clothes. 

I am not for sure, but think they were made/painted between 2005 and 2010.

It seems I lost interest after I finished the painting. An online challenge kick started their finish.

A reason to do the clothes for the "wanna be"  before I do the detail painting.

To see the progress you need to look at older posts. 

 I started this walker "wanna be" 12 days ago. I have worked on her at least 1-2 hours each day. Some days up to 5 hours.

 Izannah walker dolls were made in the 1800's .

I can not afford to buy one so like so many other dolls on my blog I do "wanna bee's"

I tried the acrylic on the doll. I stopped after just doing the basic shapes because I can see it is NOT going to work for me.

I have done my doll faces with oils and using acrylics is not going to work for me. I like the look and feel of working with oils. The acrylics dry to fast and they do not move like oils.

 It looked so bad -- I repainted it with an oil base coat. 

The oil will have to dry. 

It will take at least a week to dry. Then I will add detail. 

A walker doll was featured in a page of dolls, stamps.

flesh color

 Today I added acrylic base coat. 

Normally my dolls have a very smooth finish. 

Because the walker dolls do not seem to have a smooth finish,  I left the texture of the fabric covering show through.

Not sure I like it but it is what it is. 

Because she is newly made I will not try to make her/him look old.