Trying new things
Today I finished a doll that has kept me busy for the past three weeks, (with days off thrown in). I wanted to make a cloth doll with a much more rounded head than the usual flattish one associated with primitive cloth dolls from the past. My eye was caught by a cloth doll made by Peggy Flavin that you can see on the website of Corgyncombe Courant. She has a nose that actually sticks out. Peggy graciously explained to me that the nose was made from paperclay that was glued onto the face before painting. Her doll was adapted from a Gail Wilson pattern, which uses darts to make the head round and gives it a chin too. I thought that I would try to make a doll with a baseball head and used advice from several sites on how to create my own head. After some experimentation I came up with a head I liked and proceeded to design a body in proportion to the head. After stuffing the doll I added a nose of paperclay, then sanded and gessoed her head and limbs. Next, painting the face. I always enj...