I've Been Sewing.....

I have received many emails over the last few months asking if I intend to make my rag dolls again. As some of you may know, I suffer with an RSI in my wrist, caused by many years of stuffing the dolls limbs so firmly! I have decided to try to pace myself this time and to create one per week up until Christmas, which I hope will not cause the problem to flare-up again. It should also mean that I will have the time to produce the other items on my site. (Family commitments permitting)
I will be making my larger size rag dolls for now, to see if there is any interest. Each one is unique and dressed in my best antique/vintage fabrics and trims. (Please note that they are designed as collectables for display and not as toys)

So the first raggy friend, hot off the sewing machine, is Fleur.

She wears a dress of C19th French toile, with scarlet background and French grey pastoral scenes, flowers and acanthus leaves.

Her French linen jacket was fashioned from C19th sheeting finished by hand and has an assortment of red plastic buttons as decoration along the opening edge.

Beneath her dress is a pretty petticoat trimmed with hand crochet lace.....

and red ticking bloomers cinched at the ankles. Her hand painted boots are embellished with mother-of-pearl buttons and striped ticking tops.

Fleur was added to my website yesterday, but in future I shall add all other dolls that I manage to produce, in with my usual catalogue update and will inform those on my mailing list of the new selection.

If you would like to know more about my dolls, I wrote a blog post over a year ago, here.

I have several displayed in my home. One, dressed in blue Vichy check, sits on an old wash stand in my bedroom.....

Another perches up on a cupboard in our living room, along with her pink painted basket and doll-sized canine friend!

I also have one hanging from a coat hook in my hallway to greet all those who enter!

Enjoy the rest of your week,

Niki x