Projects: In Progess or Ideas? What'choo Workin' On?

[DollyKim]

Thanks everyone! This would be a great beginner's project, or something to do on a long trip. All the hexagons are the same size, the boarders are cut in half, the corners are cut in quarters. None of the fabrics have a direction so there's no rhyme or reason to putting them together.

Instead of strait pins I put it together with safety pins so I could pick it up and put it down as time allowed me.

[IzabethS]

DollyKim - The quilt looks awesome! I love all the colors that are meshed together.

I finally finished working on Rose, and now I have to finish blushing and tattooing Mort and I have to paint Prem's hooves and wings. Val needs his ears reblushed as well and oddly I've been wanting to redo his face up...

Also I have to make molds of my demon wings that I sculpted because they are at that point where they are ready to be cast. I need to get a hold of Gerald and Zircon again.

Another thing on my list is to fix a friend's Oceanmoon Ha-Nee, who broke a peg out of her hand. I offered to fix it for her in due time, but I need a small dremel to do it so I can drill a hole into her hand and put a new peg in before supergluing the snot out of it.

I think that's it for dolly projects...

[kiki-chan78]

Small and unfortunately blurry sneek-peek at the doll from my previous shot. I will say, from the amount of work that I've put into him... he's NOT going in the water. >.>;;;







<3

-Kiki-chan78.

[Dirili]

mean teaser T_T
It looks so awesome just from that! I want to see it all!

[E-Beth]

Vase of flowers


Good thing they are artificial flowers or they'd totally wilt in the eight weeks before my doll arrives.

Overall about 5" tall

Small scale silk (?) flowers from Michael's originally bought for decorating hats.
Vase from the thrift store. "Brown" things were 1/2 price so it cost me 25 cents. Wow.

[E-Beth]

AND the bed project proceeds apace.
This project will be a Mission style twin bed complete with tufted mattress, feather tick, feather pillows, duvet, duvet cover and sheets. Or maybe a nice wool blanket instead of the duvet. Have not decided yet.

I won't be able to do any woodworking for a few days, so I switched to starting on the mattress.

Here's the mattress halfway tufted.

It should be 13" by 25" by 3/4" when I'm done.
I did not measure and mark my tufting points. I should have, but my excuse is I started on the tufting before I'd had a whole cup of coffee. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. When I do something like this again, I'll mark an even grid on both sides of the mattress or cushion.

It started out VERY puffy. The horizontal band you can see in the middle is 3/4" wide. That's the goal-thickness.


I used what I had on hand, which was cotton jaquard fabric leftovers, and polyester stuffing purchased for a soft-sculpture project. If I had decided to buy stuff instead of trawling the leftovers, I'd have cut down a soft pillowform. My stuffing job was not very even.

To put the tufts in, I used a soft sculpture needle (3" long) and cotton topstitching thread. I went in top to bottom, leaving a thread tail for later, then back up, then top to bottom again, then up. Giving me a sort of pulley effect, allowing me to tighten the tufting down.


I pulled the two thread tails as tight as I could around a 1/2" dowel, then tied them off with a square knot followed by a surgeon's knot. Then slide the dowel out. This ensures that my tufting stays about 3/4" high.


A tuft tied off


The left end is basically finished. You can see how much the tufting reduces the puffiness.

[Linteia]

Finished Genesis's face-up, moving on to Monica. Next I'm buckling down to make Genesis some clothes. I have the fabric for a few dresses, a school girl skirt and socks. She needs some shirts too but I haven't figured out what they will be yet.

[richila]

Liz I am a believer in the not enough caffeine defense-but your tufting is still better than mine.
It is fun to see what others are working on. I finished doing a chocolate baby Suve this morning

Chocolate Baby Hujoo Suve by richila9098, on Flickr
It is especially nice that I got to play with one and she will not be living here. Now i don't have to wonder if I want one-I don't. Cordie's posing has me spoiled.

[Dirili]

Vase of flowers


Good thing they are artificial flowers or they'd totally wilt in the eight weeks before my doll arrives.

Overall about 5" tall

Small scale silk (?) flowers from Michael's originally bought for decorating hats.
Vase from the thrift store. "Brown" things were 1/2 price so it cost me 25 cents. Wow.

I NEVER would have guess that that was only 5" tall. It looks full sized to me!

Sweet, work, the rest of you ^_^

[DollyKim]

The next thing to give the hands something to do while dolls dry. The sewing will start from the center so everything will line up.