Woven mixed media dolls – 2
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.
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Spinning yarn to weave a doll
April 24, 2008 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under Creativity, small loom weaving, weaving and handweaving and looms
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 …read more
Worry dolls- almost
March 30, 2008 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under Creativity, cords and cordmaking, crafts, doll and dolls and dollmaking, easy projects & fast projects, how to, spool knitter & spoolknitter, spool knitting and spoolknitting
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 …read more
