Doll completed

Completed doll, crocheted cap with beads

Fabrics I bought at Trumart

Two fabrics I bought yesterday at Trumart Fabrics, on the corner of 25th St. and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, NYC.

Dancing with Joy

Doll made with Jacquard Fabric Sculpting Medium

This doll is from a Laura Lunsford article that was in the March 2013 Soft Dolls and Animals.

Cloth Boy Doll

Cloth boy.  Pants recycled from a pair of my jeans, top is part of a sock.

Sweet Doll from a pattern by Nkale

Doll pattern by Nkale

I made the bag, that didn't need a pattern.

Van Cortlandt Elf sadly contemplates the paving of the Putnam Trail

 

This elf was made from two patterns, the head is from the Jingles pattern by Michelle Munzone in the January 2013 Soft Dolls and Animals and the body is from the Tomkin pattern by Carol Saunders in the May 2004 Soft Dolls and Animals.

Simple Cloth Doll Class at the Amalgamated Houses, Bronx, NY

So much creativity. I gave this class on April 6, 2013. It was a wonderful experience.

Marylouz sendz me a PIF

Thanks so much! Marylouz blogs here

Sock Butterfly and Sock Whale

Sock Butterfly with crochet edges on wings

Sock Whale

Spool Chair and cloth rabbit

Rabbit from a Missy Ballance pattern

Spool Chair, good for a six inch doll

Butterfly Fairy

Butterfly Fairy, my interpretation of Fairtilly by Yoka Roos-Huddleston
from the January 2011 edition of Soft Dolls & Animals

Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers

Show and Tell5

Lewis Cohen

Ladder Stitch

This video shows how to neatly close arms and legs.  You can also use the ladder stitch to attach heads and if you want them immobile, attach arms and legs.

Can't Wait for Spring

Elf from a pattern by Colleen Babcock in the festive 2012 edition of A Needle Pulling Thread

Saxon Avenue, Bronx December 23, 2012