So I may have mentioned once or twice how obsessed I am with doll making. I've been so thrilled with the response, and am amazed at how many people love dolls and doll making as much as I do.
My most recent dolls have been a very satisfying (for me) combination of fun fabrics, hand painted faces, yarn sculpted hair. Like this doll whom I call Rose:
One thing I really love about this doll is that I didn't even realize that she resembled a rose until she was almost done. In retrospect, its hard to imagine how I could have missed it. To start, her dress is a linen print of a rose. That should have been my first clue, but I've used the fabric before in non-rose themed dolls. I chose olive green linen for her leggings, perfect as a rose stem, but still, I had no plans to make a rose. Then I chose that green/pink silk for her scarf (you know, like those small Rose leaves at the base of the flower). Still no plan. Even after I chose hot pink for her hair, I had no plans on making this doll a rose. I was going to give her long wavy pink hair. But as I was finishing her up, on Valentine's Day of all days (really, it could not have been more obvious), I started playing with her hair. All of a sudden I looked at her and realized that I was, in fact, making a rose. I piled her hair up on her head and sculpted it in a floral wave. I added the little pink rose to her hair, and it was done. A rose for Valentine's Day!
