Milagro Amulet Doll
Apr. 3rd, 2010 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anne_dAnother 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...
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...
