Milagro Amulet Doll

[anne_d]

Another project completed.

This one started out with the Silvercrow milagro woman amulet set. I made a little head and torso unit from some blue fabric with spirals (for some reason, it called to me from the stash) and stuffed it. Then I attached the charms with little loops of seed beads.

Except for the head, which fell victim to one of the obligatory screwups without which no project of mine is complete. I used a dab of craft glue to secure the head charm to the head of the doll, all well and good. Then I tried to very carefully bend the loop just a little bit, so I could sew the charm onto the doll's head - and the loop broke off, leaving a sharp edge.

So I filed it down, carefully keeping my finger between the file and the fabric, but there was still a bit of a dusty mark. Oh well, I thought, I'll just cover it with sparkly yarn or something, for hair. I tried metallic embroidery floss, I tried sparkly fibres, but nothing looked right. So I used clear silver-lined seed beads, which don't look too bad. More seed beads here and there, a bit of ripping out and redoing of beadwork and the addition of some red seed beads, and there you have it.

She's just under 4" tall, and she is going to live in the pocket of the quilted totem banner, with the fortune cookie fortunes. I don't know why, she just seemed to belong there.

So, photos:

Front view



Back view, so you can admire her beady locks



And the doll in her new home



And now, I am going to drag the paint ladder into my little studio, because the abstract angel art doll decided to go for a flight, fell off the wall and landed on my sewing cabinet. Silly creature. Although, come to think of it, she is made from the same blue spiral fabric as the milagro doll. Perhaps Delight is trying to tell me she'd like to move to the other wall...

Comments

[usedtobeljs]

I like the seed-beads improvisation!

[hugs]

[anne_d]

Thank you!

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

I am relieved to know that I am not the only one who has things break after they are glued in place; I go through a lot of dremel cutting disks taking care of that.

Julia, and, yay, pretty!

[anne_d]

Thank you kindly!

Yes, Quick-Grip is my friend. Someday, I want a dremel - they sound so exceedingly useful.

[julia-here.livejournal.com]

The cutting wheels are supposed to be for edge-on use, but I use the sides of them for stuff like smoothing off cut wires and rough edges on cheap jewelry findings where the barrel shaped sanders are too big to get in the available space. I do not follow directions well.

Julia, this is the tiny battery-drivenone; I killed the plug-in Dremel before I learned how to use it.

[makd.livejournal.com]

She's beautiful!!! And I lover her silvery-bead hair....

Your fiber art and dolls are so beautiful, Anne. How'd you get into this? Have you always done fiber art?

[anne_d]

Thank you!

I guess it depends on what you consider fiber art - I've been making doll clothes for as long as I can remember. My mom taught me crochet and basic embroidery and sewing, also origami and felt finger puppets, we took a few classes together when I still lived in Pasadena, and I learned most of the other crafts from either kits, classes, or just buying the supplies, a book, and messing around.

I've been taking classes online for a few years now; that's how I got into art dolls. I think Chaska (used to be Mai-Liis) Peacock's online mermaid class was the first one you could classify as "art dolls", unless you count the stuffed dinosaurs I made for the Elder Daughter when she was small.