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| This was a test dress that I made, using a friend's prototype pattern. I wonder if anyone else has ever had a blog post entitled "testing a friend's dress pattern on former soldier doll." |
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| She really wanted a waist band to show off her figure. |
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| Then she insisted on puff sleeves, a fuller skirt and an eyelet ruffle. I wonder what she'll want next. |
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| I made this doll last year. Here is the former state of the doll: http://mcnallyschool.blogspot.com/2010/03/robert-louis-and-dudley.html. This was Dudley, the blond Civil War soldier. |
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| Now her name is Sarah. |
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| Georgia Constance was originally made in 2010 from Dixie's workshop pattern. Click here to see what she looked like before. |
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| Resting. |
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| She has a re-sculpted and re-painted head. |
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| Here is my latest re-done doll. I gave her new limbs, using Dixie's IW pattern. She also has a re-sculpted and re-painted head. |
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| I painted her skin, facial features and boots with acrylics. Then I painted hair with oils. |
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| The hardest part about making this doll was the ruffle on the dress!!! The doll was originally smaller and shorter, so the dress was too short for the re-done doll. I scrounged around to find some tiny pieces of the original fabric and worked FOREVER to make that silly ruffle along the hem, to lengthen the dress a bit. I hope that she's satisfied! |
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| My daughter named her Eleanor. |
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| My mom, Martha Rutledge, makes beautiful little doll quilts. Here's one of her new ones. |
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| Here's another one. I love this one! |
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| She also made these two adorable little rag dolls. |
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| One of Mom's many sewing corners. |
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| Sweet tableau in Mom's house. |
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| She made the rag doll on left for me a long time ago. I made Olive, on the right. She made Olive's beautiful new dress. Olive's dress fabric is a Civil War repro fabric. The color is a bluish green. Mom told me that this was a common shade of green because the yellow became fugitive from the original green, leaving more blue. Sometimes the blue would fade, leaving a poison green tone. Also, the print is called a foulard. Foulards had a diagonal repeating pattern and were very popular during the 19th century. |
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| Mom and my kids, arranging diamonds that Mom paper pieced for a larger quilt. |
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| I re-sculpted and re-painted. She also got a new stockinette covering for her head. Her clothes are vintage, from a doll show. I just love the dotted Swiss apron. |
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| Her head ended up being enormous, because of the addition of clay to even out the head shape. When I review my older dolls, I realize that I pay WAY more attention to overall head shape and symmetry than I used to. Before I start sculpting features, I spend hours and hours sculpting and sanding the head to get a nice shape. One of the reasons that I'm so enjoying these re-done dolls is that I can see my learning process in action. Very rewarding. |
