Finally got some new batteries for the camera...

...rechargeable ones.

Bye-bye Crappy-phone-photos!

Hello Slightly-less-crappy-camera-photos!

Well, it's been a month, and I got three of five things ticked off my "MUST DO" list.
Here's number three:

 A pink Kells Wyvern for the Sprog

pattern by Smallworks

Of the remaining things: one is *almost* finished (hopefully tomorrow) - and the other (the Nav'i) I've just not gotten very far on - I'm just not "feeling" the sculpt at the present time...

Still I got three UFO's out of the way. Feels good.

I also started about six more things :D

Here's a couple of them:

huge cloth doll - she's about 2 foot tall.

Papercut "cameo"

over-exposed Dwarf.

And this wee guy was found in a box in the cupboard - I made him when I was a student - back in the mid-'90's. My Husband provided the paint job.

The Sprog's Pony

I started making this pony before I started this blog.
It's been sitting around legless for over 3 years, poor thing.

From the "Fine Equinery" pattern by Barbara Graff:

Ack! - what a terrible photo!

Boy, do I need to hurry up and get some batteries for the camera so I can stop using my phone...

Spoonflower is AWESOME!

OMG OMG OMG!!!!
My teeny Spoonflower order  arrived today...

8" swatch =

super cute keyrings!

WOOO!

Bradley Doll again...

Soooo...

For some reason, my computer is acting slightly screwy - and I'm having severe troubles uploading photos - either to blogger or flickr. I get random colour banding like the image to the right - and the pattern is different each time I try uploading.
I've updated then switched browsers - de-fragged & virus checked, and tried with & without the firewall going.


The photos on here now are the best of a bad lot.

Stupid Computer.

ANYWAY.

This is a "Ruffler":
I became closely aquainted with one over the last couple of days...
I needed it to sew her skirt...


I've finished!





Her face lost a bit of detail when I re-covered it with the stocking - as it was coarser than the original fabric used - so the eyelashes are not as clear or delicate.



I gave her something that she'd been missing - SHOES!
No more barefoot tiptoeing for this girl...

The Bradley Doll...

A couple of years ago - I fell in love with this Bradley Doll, which I then scored for about $4 on Trademe.

Bradley Dolls were cheaply produced figures, made in Korea, Japan and later China. They started production in 1954 - and stopped roughly 30 years later. They're made from polystyrene and stockinette and worth approximately $zilch...

She was a bit worse-for-wear (read: falling-to-bits) and I gently put her in a box and forgot about her.




She re-surfaced when I moved all my crafting thingies two weeks ago.



I'm 'restoring' her (read: pulling her to pieces - and cleaning, repairing, repainting, and re-costuming).


So far I've
* cleaned the polystyrene base
* re-skinned her (with fresh pantihose)
* Sewn underpants, a crinoline, and ruffled skirt
* remade her arms - after bleaching the cotton stuffing (which was so discoloured, it looked like cardboard...urgh)
* Painted a fresh, new face (in the same style - but different colours)
* begun to re-wig her (this is the trickiest bit!)






SO much fun.

I should get her finished tomorrow or the following day...

This was what the inlaws got for Giftmas last year.

Might I add this was before I got my sewing machine?

These two are completely hand stitched. It took ages...

My husband made the little newspaper (it's full of geeky articles - stuff that he & I like), and Little-Miss-Five donated the teacups ('cos Nana & Gramps are always having a "Cuppa-tee!"

Nana started life as a Marion Halcomb pattern, "Grandma's Flying Lesson", but as I suck at getting the grain of the fabric lined up, the head came out an unusual shape. It sat around the house, scaring my husband, until he figured out what was bothering him about it....'It looks like Mum!'

So I had to make Gramps too, and little chairs that matched their new lounge suite...

The victims....