Rachael Ann & Spunky

This is a custom order doll set that I made for Marti. Thank you for the opportunity to make this doll set for you Marti. 

FOLK ART DOLL MARY CANARY

Mother Goose Rhythm Doll

MARY'S CANARY

Mary had a pretty bird,
Feathers bright and yellow,
Slender legs--upon my word
He was a pretty fellow!

The sweetest note he always sung,
Which much delighted Mary.
She often, where the cage was hung,
Sat hearing her canary.

Now little Mary is a pretty as a picture. Mary's facial features are created with several techniques. Her gorgeous blue eyes are watercolor painted. The shading and highlighting, of her face, were also created with watercolor. The water color is sealed to keep the coloring fresh. Her nose lips and eyebrows are needle sculpted. Mary's eyebrows are also feather stitch embroidered with a rich brown color. Her eye lashes are painted. Mary's head is a separate attached piece. Her long pigtails are wool roving. Just look at those gorgeous hand made flowers adorning her pigtails.

Mary is made from osnaburg fabric. She has individual fingers and needle sculpted wee little toes. Mary sits very well as she is a little chunky. She is about 14" tall and about 13" wide. Mary has her favorite bird and fruit print dress on. This tea stained dress with the golden print fabric trim is the perfect setting for this themed doll set. Did you notice the other flower on Mary's sleeves? Flowers and birds are her favorite things.

The bird and cage are both made from onasburg fabric. Little Canary has wired feet and separate button attached wings. You can move the wings into what ever position you want. Little Canary is 5" tall. The bird cage is wired throughout so it will stand well on it's own. It is almost 9" tall and has a flower attached to the top. Did you notice it has a cage door.

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New on the Prim Nest

Large Rug Hooked Easter Eggs

Peggy Anne

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How About a Little Sunshine

* To Brighten Your Days *

This is Sunshine and Moony

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Bessy Anne

 

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Bessy Anne  is about 16" tall and at her legs is about 10" wide. She has the pose of a sitting down baby with bent knees. Bessy Anne's legs and arms are button jointed. Notice her adorable separate attached head and the needle sculpted proportions of her face, fingers and toes.  She has pretty painted finger and toe nails. Bessy Anne is made from Onasburg fabric that is paint stained in various stages. She is partially rag stuffed as I think this gives more weight to the doll.  My dolls are unique and rather large for their size.

Primitive Folkart Pumpkin Head Doll

Scarza

Scarza is a wonderful primitive doll.  With her green eyes and toothy grin she just might just steal your heart. She is made from paint stained Osnaburg fabric and is 2 feet tall.

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PRIMITIVE HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN DOLL TISSUE COVER

This sweet tissue cover doll is both functional and decorative. 

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Pfatt Tuesday Halloween Witch & Black Cat

 

Meet Hezeba and Bleziy

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Some of the things I have made

I will post just a couple of photos

Dimensional Rug Hooked Pumpkin

Sun Doll Penny Rug Style Wall Hanging

Lumina Jack-O-Lantern

This wonderful Pumpkin is available on Ebay right now.

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Also listed on Ebay

This sweet Pumpkin doll Tissue Cover

This auction is for the doll 

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Little Flower Girl

The Second doll in my Needle Punch Series.

She is free standing and weighted.

From all sides she is gorgeous.

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Lots of ideas

Enjoying the creativity swimming around in my head and working it's way out in hands on creations. 

I have a little black girl in the works. I do not do Caucasian dolls very often but my Mother Goose Pfatt Challenge doll is a Caucasion doll.This doll will follow the Mother Goose Rhythm of Mary's Canary. I also have another Mary's Canary doll in my mind that will find it's way to creation. 

MARY'S CANARY

Mary had a pretty bird,
Feathers bright and yellow,
Slender legs--upon my word
He was a pretty fellow!

The sweetest note he always sung,
Which much delighted Mary.
She often, where the cage was hung,
Sat hearing her canary.

I also have a new needle punch doll that I will be working on soon. 

Let me know if you want me to try my hand at making any of these punch needle dolls into patterns. 

Here is a picture of my last needle punch doll.

Playing Card Queens Doll Set

This wonderful doll set is on Etsy

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Submission Sent

I am so excited about the possiblity of having something published in a magazine. This is the magazine I am trying to get one of my creations in. If you love primitive this is an awesome magazine.

Prims Magazine

I made one of my witch dolls and mailed it off yesterday.

This will be my first attempt and I do plan on broadening this to include other magazines. 

Primitive Black Doll Rachael & Rug Hooked Bees

 

This little cutie will be heading to Washington today.

My newest Black Doll Rachael

Isn't Rachael the sweetest thang you ever did see.

She will be posted on Ebay soon.

She has two rug hooked bees in her little lap.

 

New Halloween creations

I have been working on many things over the last week.

Look for a new little black girl with a rug hooked bees.

Been playing with making Jack-O-Lanterns. Look for a couple different kinds including a Lumina pumpkin.

Last but not least I have new witches.

One of these I will be sending in for submission to Prims Magazine. 

The other will be going on Halloween Queens Castle Bootique. 

Photos will be coming soon.

I am looking forward to creating some new and exciting things this week. 

Doll Making Tips

Doll Making Tips

Just wanted to share a few tips I have learned along the way.

While stuffing doll body parts roll the doll parts between your hands to distribute the stuffing. Or roll the pieces on a table.

To hide your knots. Tie your knot then put the needle through the same hole. This makes the knot hide in the stuffing. I do this several times so that I know the knot is secured.

Moisten the fabric before stuffing the doll. This helps you stuff firmly and helps keep the thread from breaking.

Use upholstery thread for hand sewing doll body parts or for needle sculpting. I have heard that dental floss works great to but have not tried it.

Thread keeps knotting while you hand sew. Pull the thread over bees wax before using.

Needle doesn’t want to go through fabric. Press the needle tip into a bar of soap.

Use pencil for drawing faces and other details on fabric. When moistened this will usually wash off. Or erase if fabric is dry.

It is easier to sew the doll parts and then cut them out of the fabric. Rather then cut the pieces and then sew.

Various sizes of hemostats work great for stuffing. Also get some curved ones to.

I used to use muslin but have fell in love with Osnaburg fabric for primitive doll making. If you paint stain your dolls you will find that the painted surface does not scratch as easy.

Various sizes of needles are a must. Long doll needles are necessary tools for thread jointing.

Finger turners are a great help.

Freezer wrap makes great patterns. You can even iron the shiny side down onto your fabric and sew. People like to use this technique to try to get the exact size as the pattern. Often the patterns increase in size when you draw around them.

This is just a beginning of a list. Please add your tips for doll making here.

Sneak Peeks

The Card Queen set.

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Strawberry Pie Susie

Look for these wonderful dolls to be for sale soon. 

Interested in an early purchase email me. I can get you more photos.

Black Mammy Tissue Cover

This doll has found a new home and is heading to Pennsylvania.

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