New banner on Etsy

My wonderful spouse has made me a new banner for my Etsy shop. We're working on getting it up and running again. It's been awhile since I've used it.

I am trying out a new pattern tomorrow. I will post the details later when I do an update of my progress.

Lessons learned

This round of doll making has been very educational for me. I've learned that carefully lining up seams and/or arms is easier than ripping out a seam. I've also learned that I need to iron flat my seams. This is especially true if I am joining a light fabric with a dark one. Not doing this causes a weird shadow effect under the light fabric. One of my dolls looks like she has five'o'clock shadow. Also, I am learning to do things in steps. Before I had Reghan I could devote blocks of time to completing a doll. Now I have to be able to stop and then pick up again whenever I get a chance.

I'm almost done. I just need to add legs to them and then take pictures.

Update

My wonderful husband has made me a banner for my blog. I am in the process of making six dolls. There are body parts everywhere. I'll post pictures once they're completed.

Pattern Tweaking

I've been tweaking my pattern.  I've made the doll's head and body wider, added a thumb, and gave her feet.

Two New Dolls

I  shrunk the rag doll pattern that I had been working with and made two new dolls.

I think they're cute.  They're sisters, lol.  I stuffed these from the bottom of the body.  Not sure if I'm going to do it the same way next time because it was hard to turn the fabric at the bottom and attach the legs. Overall I like them, I just have a couple of things that I think I should do differently next time.  

Update

I tried to put together a Black Apple doll but ran into sone snags.  The directions call for pinning the arms and legs into the middle of the doll and then sewing  the front and back of the doll together right sides together.  After that you turn the doll inside out.  Seems simple but when I turned my doll one of her legs fell out and one of the arms was only partially attached.  Rather than try the pattern again I went back to my drawing board and came up with a couple of new patterns.  

This is my first attempt.  I didn't like her proportions.  Her arms and legs were too long and her torso was too short.  I also tried to stuff her from the top of her head.  After I finished stuffing her when I went to sew her up, her head ended up too flat.

Here is my second attempt.  I tried to stuff her from the base of her neck.  Worked better than stuffing from the top but still not great.  I'm going to try a different method next time.

Black Apple Experiment

I've cut out my fabric and am getting ready to stitch together my Black Apple Doll.  She's terribly cute.  I used silk for her legs and some upholstery fabric that I had been hoarding for her body.  Her hair is felt and her arms and face are muslin.  Once I get her together I'm thinking about making her some shoes and maybe a scarf or collar.