I had a rough day out with Isabelle with presents and last minute made Christmas cards to be mailed. The trip to the post office was a bit of a challenge with the capper being Isabelle bursting into tears when the postal worker took back the pen she had been lovingly holding. So I wouldn’t be surprised if some people do not receive Christmas cards. It was just one of those outings. I’m surprised I even remembered to take these pictures today. I’ve been meaning to get some decent pictures for days.

Ok…on to it: the fat, one brokened arm (as Alan sees it) bunny. I added a face and gave her a dress so I deem her FINISHED! Alan thinks she is creepy. He says it looks like a dead bunny. Maybe it’s her eyes?

I usually like to embroider faces but I got lazy since this was a test bunny. I just used felt and didn’t even stitch her eyes all the way down. They are just held by the little knot in the middle. They’re just asking to fall off and make her look more dead. Or maybe it’s her smile. I wanted a big smile like my original sketch but it’s a little wobbly and it doesn’t help that I didn’t stuff her head enough.

But I love her.

Down to the gathers on her dress,

the button loop on the back of her dress that she’s practically bursting out of (fat bunny),

and her blind stitched hem. (Yes I figured out the blind stitch on my machine!) I love my fat, creepy, dead looking, broken armed, bunny.

Isabelle on the otherhand does not love fat bunny. In fact I had put fat bunny down on the ottoman and turned around to find Isabelle screaming at fat bunny and beating the crap out of her. Ok not really. But she was screaming and pounding on her. I don’t know what that was about. Wish I had a picture of that!

I’ve had this idea of making a bunny in my head for a while, from even before the nubby dolls or pee pee monsters or anything. I tried once before and it was a dismal failure. But now with some experience under my belt I decided to try again. This isn’t the original bunny I had envisioned. It’s fatter and the ears are floppier. I must dig up the original sketch…

Well anyhoo, she’s made out of garbage fabric again. I wanted to work out her design first before moving onto fabric I like. And good thing I did. There is actually another bunny before this but it was all flat and sad.

I haven’t decided on the limbs yet. I liked the bendy arms and legs on the pattern doll so I made one arm and one leg bendy to see how they looked. When I showed her to Alan he was confused. He said it looked like one of the arms was broken.

I really like how she turned out. She’s partly filled with pellets and the rest polyfil so she has a nice heavy butt for sitting and the rest of her is soft and flopsy. She needs a little dress and apron I think and of course a face. Then I will move onto a real bunny with real fabric.

Here is Dolly in clothes. She is just the kind of doll I’ve always wanted, with a dress and an apron.

Here’s the back of her apron. Her clothes have snaps so they’re removeable.

And she even has drawers and a petticoat!

I used garbage fabric for her clothes. I call it garbage fabric because my dad gave it to me. Three garbage bags full of fabric from some closed down factory. I chose the fabric for her petticoat and drawers because of the color. That was a big mistake! It was this slippery nightgown like material, really hard to sew with. That’s not really the best idea when you’re trying to learn something new. I was making shoes for her but I don’t like how they’re turning out so maybe she’ll just be shoeless.

Now back to my own dolls with some fresh ideas of where I want to go.

With each nubby doll I make they evolve a little, my sewing gets better and I learn more. They inspire me to think of new dolly designs. I have sketches of dolls with real clothes instead of wraps and floppy bendy arms. So in my quest to learn more I thought I would try a real dolly pattern instead of one made up in my head. And here she is.

I love her! She was supposed to be completely practice just to get used to some new techniques. I used scrap fabric and I wasn’t planning to finish her at all. She was going to be this faceless hairless practice doll.

But as soon as I saw that curve in her back, I fell in love. She was headless and limbless and I adored her already. Ask Alan. I hugged her to me and told Alan how beautiful she was and she didn’t even look like anything yet. I have to finish her now. The girl needs some clothes!

No that’s an apple a day keeps the doctor away. I’m a goober. I wanted to finish her today just so I could write a dolly a day keeps the doctor away and name her Apple.

Here is Apple in her unmentionables.

Apple is showing off her reversible wrap. It’s nice and plain inside like this one.

I’m really having fun making these dollies. Soon I’ll have a whole gang of them. They will get together in their skivees and party.

I think I will need to find a new belt for Apple. I’m not sure about the red.

Oh and must take pictures with proper light and not late at night in a rush. Why a rush? Well because Isabelle is wanting a bath and bed soon.

Ok…gotta run. Like I said, Isabelle needs a bath and bed!

Updated: I just had to take some new pictures in more natural light.

I made a new nubby doll using that fabric I got ages ago. Her name is Ginger. And here she is in her unmentionables.

I made a new wrap. It was supposed to be for Linnea but on the weekend we went to San Francisco for my sister’s birthday. I gave the first doll, Aven, to her as a birthday present and the new wrap too since it was the best one, all improved design.

I think the Aven dolly should be renamed Helen for her. It’s a Helen doll now and I have my me doll. I should have taken pictures of them together. The sister dolls. Well she’s coming out this weekend for my birthday so if she brings it maybe we can take pictures of each other holding our dolls!

Yes that’s a wonderful idea. Are you reading this sea star?