You can see my first 2 dolls here and here.
Ingredients: A pair of my mother's velvet trousers that were too past it to get the patching love, an old pajama top and some scraps.
I knew straight away I would use the trouser pocket as a mouth, and the button said "nose". I did play with lots of different possibilities, especially a flat-fish, and tried stuffing the two front pockets with white cloth so they looked like giant eyes.
Anyway, he's a dog. Elwin? I'm open name suggestions.
This is where I got to after an hour. The body isn't stitched to the head. Everything was slower, not only because was I experimenting with other options, but because he's entirely handsewn. (Why handsewn? Have I been overcome all ethical about body vs machine? No, I've just moved into shared studio space! Hurrah. Hurrah. Notice how I casually drop this vital information into conversation. However I haven't moved-in my sewing machine) I also ran out of sewing cotton and had to pull threads from cloth. Hardcore.
Here he is after 2 hours. As always I've over stepped my deadline, he's still not finished, at least another hour or 2.... He's too large to stuff with my scraps. I'd like to turn him into a puppet as the pocket-mouth is already half the construction. He reminds me of a Muppet.
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