Totally whimsical spool knitted flower doll
November 12, 2009 by Noreen Crone-Findlay
Filed under doll and dolls and dollmaking, flower maker, spool knitting and spoolknitting
‘Ugh!’, said the daughter of the woman who was holding the garage sale, ‘Take those ugly buttons, away! Please! Free! Just take them!’
Well…. I didn’t think that the buttons were hideously ugly…. just kind of
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hopelessly kitschy.
I certainly wouldn’t
have bought them….
but the upcycler in
me just could not
resist the challenge.
I wondered if I could ever use the buttons in a reasonable way.
Hmmm… I could cover them with fabric, if worst came to worst…
This evening, I was looking for something else, and found the poor much maligned buttons.
I thought…. why don’t I use a flower from my flower looms and a little spool knitting and make a flower doll?
Why not indeed?
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So, I spool knitted
2 cords- an 8 inch one
and a 4 inch one.
And, I took one
of the flowers
that I had previously
and plugged in my
hot glue gun.
I don’t usually use a hot glue gun in doll making, but, I was feeling kind of , ‘ah, what the heck’- so, what the heck?
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First,I glued the face button
to the flower.
Then, I folded the
8 inch cord in half,
and glued it to the
flower.
I made feet on the long
cord and hands
on the short cord
by folding the ends over,
wrapping and gluing to secure them.
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I glued the arms to the
body and made a little
paper heart by
punching out a heart
from a piece of junk mail.
I glued it on, and
Voila!
A surprisingly sweet
little flower doll.
So, the next time someone
says to you:
“Blech! This is soooooooooooo ugly I am going to throw it in the trash!”, you might just want to think for a moment before you let them toss it. A very sweet little doll might be hidden in the “ugliness”.
You are great Noreen…..!!!
Thank you for “A Never Ending Smile Doll”.
She just know to make friend from all over world with her lovely smile!!
Verrrrrry CUTIE !!!
Thank you so much, Swapna!
I am grinning from ear to ear, thinking that my goofy little dolly has made you smile on the other side of the world!
How wonderful is that?