Wednesday, February 20, 2008

The Moonlit Forest Doll

The Moonlit Forest Doll is a soft sculpture doll. She is stuffed with silky, fluffy corn fiber filling . Her skin is organic medium-fair knit cotton. The inner body is plain muslin. The hair is soft alpaca wool, in moonlit shades of cobalt blue, silver, and deep shadowy browns. Her hair is gathered into a high ponytail. The soft bangs surrounding her face are individually knotted into the hair line, a vision of gently wind-blown strands. She is wearing a dress with a black velvet bodice and puffed long sleeves of deep cobalt plaid flannel and a matching plaid flannel full circle skirt. The dress is trimmed with contrasting black and white mini-checked fabric and sports a massive black velvet bow at the back of the waistband. The underskirt is a rather dark red cotton, edged with cotton beige-colored Battenburg-style lace. Beneath the underskirt is a ladylike pair of muslin bloomers, also trimmed in that wonderful lace, and tied with drawstrings at the leg openings. Moonlit Forest wears her black "suede" boots with a fashionable geometric trim of rich caramel "suede" across the side of each boot. In her hair are rose adornments, accenting her fantastically soft alpaca yarn hair.

The face of this outdoorsy doll is lovely with greyish, brownish, cobalt-colored eyes and softly-blushed cheeks. The head shape is hand-tied with cotton twine, in the Waldorf-style. Her hair is handsewn strand by strand. The facial features are hand embroidered in cotton floss. This doll is not poseable. She sits. Moonlit Forest is 13" tall, and wonderfully chubby. The clothing is completely handmade - even the clothing designs are our own.

The Honeybee Doll

The HoneyBee Doll is an all-natural, all-hand-knitted, soft sculpture doll. She is stuffed with silky, fluffy corn fiber filling . Her skin is knitted caramel/honey color merino wool yarn, in the stockinette stitch. The inner body is plain muslin. The hair is merino wool multi-tonal yarns in shades of deep mahogany, deep golden, dark chocolate and caramel. She is wearing a knitted dress of cobalt-blue alpaca wool, and the wide circle skirt is gathered at the back of the waist, rather like a bustle effect. The hem is embroidered with a line of leaf-less winter trees in mahogany merino yarn. The back of the dress laces up with a deep olive yarn. Under the full skirt is a pair of knitted merino wool deep olive color bloomers, edged with hand crocheted lace of the mahogany wool yarn. The legs of the bloomers are tied at the sides for a gathered fit. The head shape is hand-tied with cotton twine, in the Waldorf-style, and her hair is hand-sewn, and styled in a "waterfall". The facial features are hand embroidered in cotton floss. This doll is poseable, with moveable button joints in the shoulders and hips. The HoneyBee is 11" tall, and wonderfully chubby. The clothing is completely handmade - even the knitted clothing designs are our own. She carries a basket of her own knitting work-in-progress- --in a handknitted dark brown wool basket, and inside that are two balls of leftover merino we rolled into "knitting balls", and two tiny tipped wooden needles with about 3/4" of a tiny knitting project already started on those little needles! Fantastical.

The Gypsy Doll

The Gypsy Doll is a soft sculpture doll - a wonderful, wander-ful, titian-haired nomad. She is stuffed with silky, fluffy corn fiber filling . Her skin is organic blush-fair knit cotton. The inner body is plain muslin. The hair is merino wool, multi-tonal yarns in shades of rusty auburns, deep mahogany, deep gold, carrot, sunset orange, and caramel. Her hair is gathered into a high ponytail, and the strands are all hand-curled. The soft bangs surrounding her face are individually knotted into the hair line, and then lightly hand-felted for a soft, fuzzy effect. She is wearing a cotton shirt and skirt set of black with white dots, and contrasting black and white checked cotton. The red sash and bow are heavy satin. The skirts and neckline and bow are edged with embroidered roses trim. Under it all is a simple pair of unadorned muslin pantaloons with a ruffled leg. The Gyspy sports a pair of red satin knee boots with roses circling the ankles. In her hair are three rose buds with leaves. The head shape is hand-tied with cotton twine, in the Waldorf-style. The facial features are hand embroidered in cotton floss. This doll is not poseable. She sits. The Gypsy is 13" tall, and wonderfully chubby. The clothing is completely handmade - even the clothing designs are our own.