In my last posting, I showed pictures of my woven mixed media dolls, Neni and Homage to Dame Julian of Norwich.

These dolls are more whimsical:

I spun the yarn and then wove them on potholder looms and combined them will all kinds of mixed media: Leather, wood, stones, metal, wire, buttons and more….

Next posting:

More whimsical mixed media woven dolls.

Some of my readers are on dial up so they’ve asked me to not put toooooooooo many pix in each entry.

Image Source: Noreen Crone-Findlay(c) 

I am working on a new doll.

I’ve finished sculpting the head:

and have finished spinning the yarn for the doll:

My best friend gave me a bag of lovely merino/tencel:

That I spun on my wheel, then plyed with my navaho spindle:

I warped up the loom

and wove one panel that just didn’t do it for me,

So, I frogged it, and re-warped the loom.

I am one of those people who would rather take something apart and re-do it rather than leave it if I don’t like it.

Taking it apart is quite contemplative, as it allows me to give myself a second (or third or fourth) chance.

I like the feeling that weaving is not written in stone.

Knowing that I can easily unweave a piece gives me tremendous freedom to be very adventurous with my materials.

I’ve just gotten a tiny bit woven on the new warp, so will start taking pics as I get a little more weaving happening.

I’ll post pics as the doll starts to emerge.

When I was designing and making this Worry Doll:

I started out by basing my measurements on another little doll that I made a few years ago:

and I ended up transforming her, too.

So, she ended up like this:

I figured that she’s such a little cutie that I should probably upload a tutorial on how to make her too.

And, I have:

Here’s the Tutorial for the Cornstarch Clay Worry Doll

It took a few days, as I had sick family, so I spent the day tending to them, and making chicken soup and such.

So, the Worry dolls took a little longer than intended,

but all’s well…..
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Tadah! I did it! I’ve uploaded the tutorial for the

Spool knitted Worry Doll