MEIN LEIBLING

Working on a client's doll she received as a present from a friend and asked me to finish dressing it......

Here she is as you can see the body is not the right size her head does not fit into the neck socket, her eyebrows are too high but still she can look rather sweet, she wouldn't be authentic but she still is a sweet doll you can dress and admire...beauty is in the eyes of the beholder and the Germans made dolls for the Toy Market not for fashions like the French....In the next pic her finger was broken so I put a piece of wire into it and created a finger this was roughly made and then sanded back to match the rest..her lower arms the paint crackled it was fine I just sanded it and matched it all up including the ball joints.  She had to be restrung elastic just doesn't wear years and years of hard weathering...                                                                                  e

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

new finger!

Crackled lower arm

ball joints

Painting

Sanded...

When finished her chamoise is sewn here pinned ready for the button holes hand sewn for authenticity..

Here I pinned the back for the darts where to go..

Here she is all done....



NEW PROJECT

I am dressing dolls that I believe if the person likes them to add a value! I find that in the way they were given to me there is very little value and in todays market there are so many different opinions. With the Internet today you can reach many more opinions to see if people agree or disagree... I never liked Antique dolls or dolls of the past especially if they were really preloved and looked very tired, some dirty and some not appealing!  Yet to the owners they were precious memories of the past they had. That to me is the definition of collectables... Why do people want to collect? I know from the past I walked into homes and sometimes I just couldn't take my eyes off some of the collectables...they intrigued, fascinated me...WHY? To-day I go visiting to many places and find that there is not much of the past very little indeed?  Where have these fascinating gorgeous things I have seen in the past gone?  I see modern things that I have no fascination or find that the saying Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder?  What beholder? seems more evident they disappear quicker and others have taken place sometimes appealing and sometimes I have no answer whatsoever???  I don't know so I will do things I see in my mind and with technology of today I will find the answers right where I am sitting typing this!

Here are the dolls the first on the left is My Doll and the far on the right is the same doll I will do up as I do mine. Her name is Mein Leibling she is a German K*R 117 . I will show the difference in the real Authenticity but then a modern point of view and love for them maybe like a coin collection a difference of value. Then the dark haired doll ceramic head and hands, with a cloth body, and a modern Asian made pretty little dolly.... not forgotten.I will try to make her as pleasing as I possibly can to me it's a form of Art not a play thing.. resembling the human form made by humans to enjoy!

Finished Wedding Quilt

The wedding is over the quilt was finished it was a challenge indeed all in the hoop ...

Dolls finished cleaned and ready to sell.....

Sugar Britches, closed eyes and open eyes, you can order dresses and accessories as you like, made in crushed coffee, cream satin, crushed sation white ....

Baby AM German Gloria, and Attic baby....These are just some of the items that are listed .....But they are for sale.....

EASTER COMING FAST

How the year has flown by so fast nearly Easter cannot believe it, have been busy trying to do the mother thing and help with the grandies as much as I can... I came home with a real dose of the gastic virus which has slowed me down or should I say I lost a week of catching up my work???  I am working on a Wedding quilt for my youngest who is getting married in August and having a baby Boy .... I used to winge about having a boy and now they have taken over so as to say.... how cute!
Anyways I will upload the wedding quilt which I chose to be plain and in blue (I wonder why made the decision before I knew) also blue is a pleasant colour so I  thought for a bedroom and I wanted to pursue the quilt in the hoop technique ....with my new Pfaff Creative sensation...

 The Block which is cut 1/2" all around shows the main design and if you look at it you can see it is all done in the hoop. I like it plain and simple especially if is for a gift. The little flower pattern in the corners I chose cause I saw her put on a dress to see what she was going to wear going out!  I love the simple quilting in the background which I did with a soft blue embroidery thread not to overpower the whole quilt .... I have to do 122 of these blocks  then 22 of the border ones...........that's a lot of sewing!

These are how the blocks will form the whole pattern of the quilt when it is all finished.......

MAY WHAT I AM UP TO

Today is the 4th May very cold here on the Mid-North Coast the icy winds are blowing indeed plants are not confused  now winter is definitely here on its way...Here are pics of my projects I set myself to keep me busy and active making  my days worth my while.. My children say I am crazy to dig a hole and get rid of it and chill out.....well I am certainly doing that in this weather chilling out!

There is my first projects I have had in boxes for quite a while I cannot for the life of me throw them out it would be such a shame I thought I know the doll world has died but thinking about the work already and the costs involved would be such a waste like in this world today.... a throw away world...I  will work on them and put step by step photos...I have no choice sitting in this quiet place no-one around doing nothing ...

My purple Charming Boudouir doll I undressed her fixed her up especially her hat she looks and sits very well .... now for my new head I am experimenting with I want more real look so I put a fine layer of clay sculpting  her nose not the best but am learning I also gave her lips and painted her with a layer of gesso then painted her I drew in eyes and kept looking at her they were at first too small so I kept drawing and drawing till finally I can't draw no more and painted what I could this is the best result after months and months of drawing....now I will move on...

MY PACIFIC GEMS

It took me a while to finish this quilt ... I have never done anything like this before I nearly went bald trying to do it, I thought I was smart but had to sleep on a lot of ideas .... I asked everyone up here for help but no-one knew anything about it....NOR DO I....it was 2013 BOM it looked good on paper but using the software and doing it was so different ...even the instructions I just didn't understand I cried a lot till hubby mentioned to lay it all out and then it will come...........IT DID!

The Quilt although I still have to make the edging border

Close up pic of the quilt with the diamond middle section in the square of quilting design that was done in the 5Dsoftware

Closer view of the design

The sun Ray which was taken of a design in the software enlarged to size on the block satin underneath the cutwork and stitched in triple stitch

taken at a different angle to show the paisley design and the corner cutwork on the innder square

a close look at the quilt with the wave border on the outside

middle square with the paisley design encored four times

the quilting in gold threads on the square (triangle showing the quilted endless quilting design border and piping

a larger view of the SUN RAY

The star jewel cutwork design

the outer Wave design which was done completely in the software and transferred to the endless design  in an ordinary hoop using template and markings to position

Paisley design to represent a sea creative

Cnr jewel cutwork design with quilted machine design with endless hoop.....I extended the quilt with a larger edging (Peacock free)  and then the binding in dark blue binding to complete the quilt to a large size quilt....

WHAT I AM UP TO NOW...

I have been catching up on everything I can think of.....coming here with the weather slightly more extreme things have come a little tired I guess getting older you keep on the same thing and they just fade out in time...I have to change, have to modernise things and keep them to the taste and flavour of the era!  Crafting has really deteriorated to my point of view, I love going to the shows what is the go but in reality what comes into my mind is that I can do that....I just have to find the techniques and I
find that my computer or the net is just an awesome tool, I don't like the games people play I love my own games of creating something quite extraordinary...... I don't want to do what people around me do I want to be different so how do I go about it.......I have talent so where do I start.....

I have fired the kiln back up going through the boxes of unfinished dolls and such even the dolls that are left behind, look so tired, so behind the times, they have no colour they just don't look right so on the net I go for ideas, there is nothing to look at around here and the petrol makes it unrealistic, so I set out and here are some new ideas....

Daddy's Boy Old Vintage

Daddy's Boy modern

Aaron modern real 000 baby wear

Crying Colin baby wear 0000

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Closeup of Modern Crying Colin

Dear Jane

Creative sewing / It took 2years and a lot of tears! My very first quilt. I would love to do it again but need more experience still. This will have to do. I would NOT recommend it to anyone for their first quilt! The story behind the quilt and watching the experienced gave me inspiration.