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How I came to make my husband an Anna Calvi doll for Christmas
Oh dear, it’s nearly a month since my last post. This was the result of a lot of travel and a lot of work before I packed up work for Christmas. I am writing today about a doll that I made for the...
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New Year’s Doll 2015
Every year on New Year’s Day I make a doll. I either make something which reflects how I am feeling about the past year or something that I want to work on in the coming one. Here are the links to...
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Black Dogfish
Sometimes I just want to make things for the sake of making and this is a case in point. It’s a fish cushion. I had great fun making it, to the point where it almost made itself. The pattern is by...
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New Year’s Day Doll 2016
If you have read this blog fairly often, you might know that every year I make a doll on New Year’s Day. The idea is to say something about the year that has passed or the one that is to come. Last...
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Trio of dolls
These dolls are made from Jess Brown‘s book, The Making of a Rag Doll. Her dolls are really ‘arty’. They look like the sort of thing Miss Haversham might have sitting next to the crumbling wedding...
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Concerning dolls and perfection
For my birthday, my very generous mother bought me a Mimi Kirchner doll. I have wanted one of Kirchner’s dolls since I came across her work in a book on doll making and used it to create my Laura...
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Cossacks for Christmas
I can’t imagine that many of you are interested in my Christmas decorations, but just in case you are, here we go. This year they are minimalist to say the least. I have had a lot going on and...
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Maria, Hen Empress of all the Russias
If you have been following my blog for a bit, you will know that every New Year’s Day I make a doll which either says something about the past year, or about the one coming up. My rule is that it has...
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Gucci chicken
Were there an award for the nicest person in the world, I think my friend Alison would be a very strong contender. She noticed the above Gucci chicken in Florence and kindly sent me a photo to go...
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Squaring up quilts
Badly hanging quilt This is another quick post. You may remember that I was horrified by just how badly this quilt hung at the Bristol Quilters’s recent exhibition. Well, in the comments I received...
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