NIADA workshop 2011 Denver

Enjoyed Deborah Pope's wet felting class and enjoyed the talented students who took the class. There were very nice animal heads created...I learned the technique and my cat head was not up to my standards but now I will try to make another one at home and maybe even a rabbit head. Deborah's felting art would be a better investment than the stock market. She is published all over the place and recently even went to Russia to teach.

Cindee Moyer, Street Fair

This was really an interesting class from Adele S. site. It is called Street Fair and has different technique for hair, head, Ballon. It took me some time to get hair that I liked and finally settled for the peacock green. Never again tho' this color since it looked like grass! Thus, the hat to overcome that look....Cindee's dolls are fabulous I think and she does so many different things with this basic looking doll.

Street Scene Cindee Moyer

I love Cindee's dolls. Something new all the time. I will do the legs differently next time however. I will make an opening in the thigh to stuff through unstead fo the foot. I think Cindee is a genius with simple tricks. Her dolls are well designed and easily made. This is an online class Stree Scene thru Adele's site.

Magpie quartet

Magpie quartet. Note the microphone. Pattern Karen Shifton. Fun and easy to make

Antique picture for restoration

I'm getting this antique oil painting restored. I have had it for years (bought at an estate sale) It is way over a hundred years old and signed (can't however make out who the artist is) but it is sooo cute.

Lately did a couple of counted crossstitch pictures of birds. We needed some pictures and I needed a change from dollmaking.

Hoffman doll 2011, House of Fairy Children

The Hoffman Challenge is a fabric challenge due July 15th for quilt, doll and accessories....The dolls must use a piece of Hoffman fabric in the making of the doll. The "houses" and wings are the Hoffman fabric on my doll. The dolls are judged and may be selected to travel in trunks to quilt shows around the US and Canada. It is always kind of stressful to come up with a concept for a doll or you can adapt patterns from designers or just do a certain pattern from a designer you like....I have adapted, Cindee Moyer, Gloria Bradford, and Salley Mavor's Wee Folk. The hat was from a Diane Evdokimoff's Dweedle the Clown. I have used my laser printed to put pictures in the window's and doors from old postcards.
Well the doll has been sent and was not selected for travel because the base was 8 1/2 inches instead of 7 inches....a disappointment but I can enjoy the doll here for the next year.