Father&Daughter

 

I have just found these two dolls made by a father and daughter after a workshop for parents and kids that I had conducted last week in Hatikva neighborhood.

Lady Chicken and Mr. Rooster

During the last week I was wrapping again, wrapping until I came up with these two:
Lady chicken,

and Mr. rooster.

Both of them were made using my new technique of wrapping recycled strips of fabric on top of each other.
I was trying to test this technique by creating more detailed creatures, incorporating the crochet and embroidery I use when creating my other creatures.

I was quite obsessed with their details, as I always am.

I made the poor rooster put his crocheted vest on and take it off at least 8 times, until I came to the decision that he is the kind of rooster that should wear a vest.

As you can see, they are quite detail-oriented too, and they don't like it when I don't clean the window rails.

Besides that, they have a lot of fun together.
*You can find Lady Chicken and Mr. Rooster at my etsy store.

Bird and Pink creature.

Lately I have been hooked on my new technique of creating dolls by wrapping strips of fabric scraps on top of each other.
I experimented quite a bit and created different shapes and creatures, but I wasn't really satisfied with any of them, until these two "came to life".

And here they are:

This pink creature is already one week old, and has been very patient since then,

Until this bird was completed today.

Finally there was someone to play with, and they had a lot of fun together

Next Friday I will hold another workshop for creating this type of dolls at my home.
E-mail me if you would like to participate, or if you would like to receive updates about future workshops.

סדנה נוספת של בובות ליפוף, אצלי בבית בשישי הבא. שלחו לי מייל כדי להירשם או לקבל עוד פרטים.
אתם מוזמנים גם להירשם דרך המייל לרשימת תפוצה כדי לקבל עדכונים שוטפים על הסדנאות שלי, כולל כאלו שלא מתפרסמות בבלוג.

Mr. big creature

So here he is: Mr. big creature! He was waiting for long time on my crochet hooks, kept me busy crocheting, unpicking and re-crocheting, till yesterday, when he told me "that's it, I am ready to go out". I had some doubts, but he was determined, pointed the camera and said: "now!"

Comparing to my other creatures he is quite big, he stands 28m/11.2" tall; including his tail, he is 35cm/14" long and approximately 25cm/10" width.
It was a new challenge for me to deal with such a big dude, after all the miniatures I have been creating lately.
He was crocheted by fabric scraps, remains of sewing workshop, one of many we have around in the neighborhood (I should tell more about it in another post soon).

I painted his eyes on small spheres, and crocheted the eyelashes by vintage hairy yarn.

As he doesn't like it when it's cold he would always wear his blue scarf on.

Sometime he can turn moody.

A rest would cheer him up.

*He is now listed at my etsy doll store.

Creature crocheting

New creature has been crocheted out of fabric scraps, on the top of my messy desk.
To be continued...

Summer bird

My new summer bird

Two birds

The birds family which I shared with you yesterday is almost done. The two first members of the family, the nesting one and the one in love are already flying around.
I did manage to catch few photos of them, so here they are:

As they are birds of passage, I have listed them on my etsy store. Maybe they will be lucky to have some overseas journey.

Cloth dolls workshop

I was teaching three days cloth dolls workshop for 10-12 years old six cute girls, the cutest, most silent girls, and creative girls I have ever taught. It could be so exhausting and frustrating, teaching kids this age, but it was completely different with these ones.
Today was the last day and I am so glad and proud to show you the results.

It is bit weird but most of them never stitched any thing by hands before, so I wanted to let them practice the blanket stitch, while creating something of their own.
These funny heads made by the toe parts of used socks were perfect beginning. After three hours they came up with well done and full of characters theses mini dolls.

Most of the second day was dedicate for sketching, I asked them to use collage techniques, to create their own innovative unique designs.

I wished to see many colorful characters made by creative use of different colorful papers, fabric scraps, crayons, marker pens, old journal, which I spread out all over the studio, but most of them preferred to use only pencil and rubber.

Then I instructed them how to prepare the pattern according to each design.
We used discarded clothes instead of new fabrics.

Today they stitch all over the day, and Walla here are the results:




So cute, don't you think?