Twinkle a natural fibre art doll

 

hi and good morning crafters.

popping in and happy to share a new natural fibre art doll whom i've named twinkle. 

from start to finish the doll took around three/four weeks on a part time basis. needle felting a dolls heads and parts of the body is so time consuming but it does make for beautiful dolls with cute features, still plenty to work on with future dolls. 

the inspiration for the doll and her name came from the colour of weft i'd choosen and a pre-made pixie hat that was made a while ago which was in conjunction with that i'd recently started watching dinner ladies by Victoria Wood a program i really enjoyed and one of the characters in the program was called Twinkle played by Maxine Peake who's hair was coloured pink also the hat and scarf have gold threads entwined which twinkle.

for Twinkles' clothes her dress and the hat were knitted a while ago and the scarf i knitted last week.

there will possibly be tweaks made to the outfit, i may make a different dress, she also needs underwear, tights or socks are needed and a coat or cardigan to complete her outfit.

they are all in the pipe line, i just can't decide what just yet.

Twinkle is approx 12"/29cms tall

Twink's hair/weft has been sewn directly onto the fabric which gets a little tricky when you get to the finishing point, i have used two colours from my stash of curly wefts.

here is a few doll in progress photos

with the knowledge i have gained from north coast dolls for the articulated head i have adapted one of my body patterns to create this doll.

i do still have more things to improve on in my doll making process and i need to evolve my body patterns but for the moment i'm a happy little crafter. 

things i need to learn/do better: crocheting with a weft.

i still struggle to crochet and how on earth i managed to do it back in may is beyond me.. i did have a little help from Meglena.

inspiration as always comes from: 

north coast dolls

fig & me

little oke dolls

craft cottage

maryjanes tearooms

plus a few others.

well that's it for today, thanks for stopping by

enjoy your day and craft happy, Ann